14/09/2026
Plafera Challenge community impact so far: 2.19kg plastic avoided, 4.49kg CO2e saved by 12 participants. https://www.plafera.org/
1. Welcome to Plafera Challenge
Plafera Challenge is a free app that turns your everyday choices — refusing a plastic bag, avoiding a sachet, organizing a clean-up — into real, measurable environmental impact. Every action you log is added to a growing, verified picture of what communities across Nigeria are achieving together against plastic pollution.
This guide walks you through everything: creating your account, using every feature, understanding your impact reports, and — if you represent an organization — how to partner, sponsor, or sell on the Plafera Shop.
2. Before You Begin — Read This First
⚠ Check Your Spam / Junk Folder
After you sign up with an email and password, Plafera sends a confirmation email before your account is fully active. This email very often lands in your Spam, Junk, or Promotions folder instead of your main inbox — especially on the first email from a new sender. If you don't see it within a minute or two, check there first before assuming something went wrong. Once you find it, mark it as "Not Spam" so future emails from Plafera arrive normally.
Two more quick things before you start:
You'll get the fastest, most reliable sign-in experience using "Continue with Google" — it skips the email confirmation step entirely.
Some features (taking a live photo, recording a video, or sharing your GPS location as verification) ask for camera and location permission. It's safe to allow these — they're only used at the moment you choose to log an action.
3. Creating Your Account
Option A — Continue with Google (recommended)
Go to www.plafera.org
Tap "Continue with Google"
Choose your Google account and approve access
You're in — no email confirmation needed
Option B — Email & Password
Go to www.plafera.org
Make sure "Create account" is selected at the top of the sign-in card
Enter your email address and a password (at least 6 characters)
Tap "Create account"
Check your inbox — and your spam folder — for a confirmation email
Tap the confirmation link in that email
Return to www.plafera.org and sign in with the same email and password
4. Setting Up Your Profile
After your first sign-in, a short set-up wizard collects a few details:
Your name and, optionally, your team, school, or organization
Your role — Citizen, Student, School, Organization, Researcher, or Policy Maker. This changes how your Impact & ESG Reports are framed later, so pick whichever best describes you.
Optional demographics — age range, gender, and region. These are entirely optional, never shown against your name individually, and only ever used combined anonymously with others in aggregate impact reports.
Once complete, you'll land on your Dashboard.
5. Your Dashboard
Your Dashboard is your home screen — it shows:
Plastic avoided and CO2e saved, from all your logged actions
Your current streak and total impact points
Any badges you've earned
A community snapshot — what everyone on Plafera has achieved together so far
Your most recent logged actions
If you haven't logged an action or taken today's quiz yet, you'll see a friendly reminder banner here to keep your streak alive.
6. Learn & Quiz
Every day, Plafera shows you a fresh set of short lessons and a 5-question quiz on plastic pollution, climate impact, and community action. The questions rotate — you won't see the same one again for 30 days — and get a little more challenging the longer your streak runs.
Read the day's lessons, then tap "Start Quiz"
Answer all 5 questions, then submit
You'll immediately see which answers were correct, with a short explanation for each
Completing the quiz counts toward your daily streak, just like logging an action does
7. Plastic Footprint Calculator
Want to estimate your impact before logging anything? The Footprint Calculator lets you pick items and quantities — bottles, bags, sachets, straws, and more — and instantly see the plastic weight and CO2e impact, broken down by material type. This doesn't log an action; it's a quick "what-if" tool.
8. Logging Your Actions
This is the heart of Plafera. Each time you refuse, reduce, reuse, or recycle a single-use plastic item, log it here:
Choose the action type: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, or Recycle
Select the plastic item and how many
Choose how you'll verify it (see below)
Tap "Log Action"
Verification Levels — and Why They Matter
Not all verification is treated equally, and stronger verification earns more points:
Self-report — quick, but lowest trust weight
Live photo — taken with your camera in the app (not chosen from your gallery), higher trust weight
Live 5-second video — the strongest verification available, highest trust weight
Product-linked — used when you buy a reusable alternative through the Plafera Shop (see Section 11)
You can also attach your GPS location to strengthen any verified action — useful for community reporting.
9. Community Clean-Ups
Organizing or joining a physical clean-up? Log it here with the location, date, bags collected, and number of participants, plus an optional photo and GPS location.
Why clean-ups say "pending approval"
Every clean-up is reviewed by a Plafera admin before it's counted in official reports — this keeps the data credible for the funders, researchers, and partners who rely on it. Approval usually happens quickly, and you'll see the status update once it's confirmed.
10. Leaderboard & Badges
Track your standing — individually or as part of a team — on the Leaderboard tab. Badges are earned automatically as you hit milestones: your first action, 1kg and 5kg of plastic avoided, streaks of 3/7/30 days, and quiz achievements.
11. Plafera Shop
The Shop lists real, admin-approved products that replace single-use plastic — reusable bottles, bags, straws, cutlery, and similar — sold by independent merchants.
12. Understanding Your Impact & ESG Reports
The Reports tab is where individual actions become collective evidence. What you'll find there, explained simply:
Plastic Avoided & CO2e Saved — your (or the community's) total impact, in kilograms
Breakdown by polymer type — which kinds of plastic (PET, HDPE, etc.) are being avoided most
Breakdown by action type — how much comes from refusing vs. reducing vs. reusing vs. recycling
8-week trend — a simple bar chart showing whether community activity is growing week over week
Geographic, age, and gender breakdowns — built only from people who chose to share this optional information, and only shown when at least 3 different people are in a group, so no individual can ever be identified
A downloadable CSV of the full report, for anyone who wants to analyze the numbers directly
A printable Impact Certificate — a shareable summary you can save as a PDF
Reports look slightly different depending on your role: citizens see a personal-impact framing, organizations see ESG/CSR-ready framing, and policymakers see flood-risk-relevant framing — but it's always the same underlying, honest data.
An honest note on the numbers
All figures are estimates based on standard environmental data and lifecycle averages, calculated consistently by Plafera's own footprint engine. They are not yet reviewed by an independent third-party auditor — Plafera states this openly rather than overstating what the data proves.
13. Sharing Your Impact
From your Dashboard or Reports tab, tap Share to post your personal impact — or the whole community's — to WhatsApp, X, Facebook, or LinkedIn, or just copy a link. Inviting others is one of the most effective things you can do to grow collective impact.
