This project offers opportunities for faith-based leadership to learn about real issues of environmental concern and how they can support and make informed decisions. This creates easy transfer of knowledge of environmental programs within their individual churches. The development and use of a web-based survey and award system which incentivizes congregations to institutionalize sustainable environmental actions and build active networks of faith-based congregation, leadership for effective faith-oriented waste recovery awareness creation and implementation of plastic collection schemes on church premises to transform the plastic recovery industry.