Answers, terms, and what we do with your data

Plastic2GiftCard is the idea of turning the branded plastic your family already buys into something worth keeping, instead of throwing it in the garbage. You track it, you earn SilverStars for it, and you turn those into Gift Cards for free shopping.

School students from Class 5 onwards.

• With your school reference code
• With a friend's reference code
• Directly at www.silverit.app

A parent or guardian gives consent before participation begins.

SilverStars are reward points that live in the packaging of the everyday brands your family already buys. Think of them as the digital backbone of plastic waste management.

• They are sponsored by grocery, daily-need and household brands. Ten SilverStars on a chocolate, for example.
• Depending on your Challenger Level, each SilverStar is worth ₹0.15 or ₹0.75.
• Only brands participating in the Bootcamp issue SilverStars. Part of the Bootcamp is inviting more brands to join, by sharing posts that tag them.

Collecting them is what makes the whole thing work. Every SilverStar logged tells a brand something about its own plastic footprint that nobody has ever been able to measure before, and that data is what lets brands and recyclers build collection systems that actually reach homes.

Yes, to the extent of the SilverStars sponsored by the FMCG brands participating at that time. Every SilverStar earned from an active brand can be turned into Gift Card value once the steps are complete.

Because an inability to pay a fee should never be the reason a student misses out on the learning. The Free level exists for exactly that. Since we carry real costs per participant, the Gift Card value at Free level is lower, and that is the only difference.

One month is the time it takes to check, verify and correct the bill data of thousands of students. We do it so that every student gets Gift Card value on the maximum possible number of SilverStars, rather than losing some to a software error.

Because bringing plastic to school does not solve anything. A photo gets taken, school ends, and the family goes back to throwing plastic in the bin the next morning.

Collecting clean plastic from home is genuinely the best answer to plastic waste. But answer honestly for yourself: will you segregate and hand over your plastic every single week, without fail, for nothing? Our research says no. You will throw it in the garbage.

Storing a month of household plastic takes about three and a half minutes. People still will not do it without an immediate reason. So Silverit starts by giving plastic a money value. Once it has one, a family has a decision to make, and most people do not throw money in the garbage.

America took about 170 years to become a superpower. India fought 200 years for independence. Today's AI tools took roughly 70 years from Alan Turing's 1950 framework. You spend fifteen years in school building the habits of reading and thinking, then three to seven more becoming an expert, and then someone gives you a job. Every lasting habit is built in steps.

Throwing plastic in the garbage is a hundred-year-old habit. India's AI generation will build the thing that changes it in about a year. Then crores of families will hand their plastic to recyclers from their own doorstep.

This is a very intelligent question.

People who collect waste plastic have families to feed, the same as anyone. Lakhs of them earn by collecting ours. What you may not know is how. It is called human scavenging: going into drains, landfills, roadsides and riverbanks to pull plastic out by hand. No safety, no respect. They do it because they have no choice.

When you build Silverit, crores of families start storing plastic at home. Recyclers and collectors can then employ people, train them, and send them to doorsteps instead of drains. Same work, paid properly, done safely.

The school guides students. It carries no responsibility for technology, rewards or anything else operational, all of which is built and managed by Silverit. Specifically, the school:

• Shares Bootcamp information with students as Silverit makes it available
• Encourages participation
• Passes on progress, results and upcoming events

A student needs a parent for the things a child should not do alone. That is deliberate.

• Consent for participation, before it begins
• Helping build the Home Plastic Tracker, by uploading and verifying grocery bills
• Choosing Gift Cards when the time comes
• Social media tasks. Parents may post themselves, and we ask that a parent reads anything before it is shared

In this Bootcamp students build the world's first Home Plastic Tracker, able to measure a household's branded plastic footprint with pinpoint accuracy. The student's role is the most important one. The work is:

• Setting up their P2G Control Room profile
• Completing Silver Library lessons and quizzes
• Uploading grocery bills, and verifying the data read from them
• Sharing posts that tag brands, to invite them to participate
• Inviting friends and parents to join

No. Beyond sharing communication with students and encouraging them, nothing.

No, it will not. About 20 minutes a week, on one day of the weekend. Roughly:

• A Silver Library lesson, about 10 minutes
• Uploading a grocery bill, about a minute
• Checking and correcting the data read from a bill, about 10 minutes
• Sharing a post, a minute or two

Separately, storing a month's household plastic takes a family about 3 minutes and 25 seconds in total. That is the whole ask at home.

There is no time limit and no deadline competing with schoolwork. A student who misses a weekend has lost nothing.

Students learn by building something real, not by studying a topic. The Bootcamp develops six skills, and each is assessed and certified:

• Foundational Data Building for AI and ML
• Problem Solving
• Responsible Use of Digital Media
• Logical Thinking
• Understanding Human Behaviour
• Sustainability Thinking and Design

Four Certificates of Excellence recognise these: Swachhta Kaptaan, Star Solution Co-Creator, Sustainability Tech Wizard, and Ethical Influencer.

The skills are the point. A student finishes able to say they built the data foundation for a real product, not that they attended a workshop about plastic.

Yes, and the design is what makes it safe rather than a promise.

• No plastic is handled. Students never collect, carry, sort or touch waste. No field work, nothing brought to school.
• It happens at home, on a phone or laptop, in the family's own time.
• A parent consents before the student starts, not later.
• No academic interference. Free-time activity, no time limit, no competing deadlines.
• Social tasks are parent-supervised. We ask parents to read anything before it is posted, and parents may post themselves.
• We never sell personal data, and we do not track behaviour, build profiles of students, or direct advertising at them.

Read the Data Policy ↓

Silver Library is where the learning happens. Ten lessons, written by Radhika Das, a journalist and sustainability crusader with 25 years of experience.

• Browse it free, without joining the Bootcamp
• Earn SilverStars for completing and sharing each lesson
• New lessons drop on Sundays
• Lessons build the six skills, and feed into the Certificates

They are not lectures about plastic. They are about human behaviour, money logic, technology and consequence, written for the age group and meant to be argued with.

Any grocery bill showing the brand name, the item name, and the size or quantity. That is what SilverStars are calculated from. Three kinds work:

• A printed bill from a shop or supermarket
• The printed bill that comes with a delivery order from a quick-commerce app
• A screenshot or PDF of a computer-generated bill from a shopping app

If you have the choice, upload the screenshot. A digital bill is the most reliable of the three because the text is already sharp, so the software reads it far more accurately than a photograph of thermal paper. More accuracy means more SilverStars turned into Gift Card value.

For a photographed bill to read properly: one photo with the whole bill in frame, bill flat rather than crushed, good light with no shadow across the print, and nothing cluttering the background.

These will not read reliably: handwritten bills, torn or taped bills, badly faded thermal prints, and photos taken at a steep angle or with the bill partly out of frame.

Yes. It is mapped to Swachh Bharat, SDG 12 and SDG 17, which means the learning outcomes and actions were designed around those goals. It is not an endorsement by any government or by the United Nations.

No.

No. We will never sell any individual's or family's personal data to anyone.

We use your data to give you the best options to earn SilverStars and other benefits that are good for you. Brands receive community-level insight only, never anything that identifies a student, a family or a household.

Because every participant is under 18, the strictest protections apply to every account. We do not track student behaviour, build advertising profiles, or direct targeted advertising at students.

Read the full Data Policy ↓