Unrecycled waste is one of the key problems of our environment. Plastic and other kind of waste pollutes our earth, water and air which also contributes to climate change. European Commission has announced that 70% of waste which is found in oceans and beaches consists of one-time plastic products. What is more, in October 2018 EC first time announced that plastic has already entered human’s nutrition chain. This project was inspired by updated priorities regarding sustainablity and EU single-use-plastic ban – people are encouraged to reduce the amount of waste they produce, not to use one-time cups, but use thermo-mug or flask instead; plastic and glass bottles deposit (Pfand) system which strongly contributed to decreasing amount of plastic waste in streets and trash bins in other countries where it was adopted. Many steps are taken in European countries towards reducing the amount of waste which gets into landfills, however, many more steps are needed to make this come true. Youngsters from partner organisations noticed, that despite some changes, many members from their close environment are not following the recommendations and all this information, although reaches them, doesn’t cause direct action in many fields. To make the statements more concrete and provide some arguments and data, partner NGO members made a short analysis and asked their friends, family members from their environment about recycling and waste sorting. Information was collected from 18 households. By summarizing the results NGO members noticed that in countries where deposit (Pfand) system is implemented, it caused the biggest change and direct action. Households identify that the biggest motivation to use deposit system is “money back” and that “trash bin doesn’t fill so fast”. Also, some of them mention that they “would feel uncomfortable to throw plastic bottle together with household waste, while others bring them and get money for it”. However, the same people don’t feel uncomfortable at all by throwing glass jar together with the same household waste just because there was no deposit for it. So deposit (Pfand) system is very good practice - it's is already for a long time in Germany, for few years in Lithuania and performed very well, it''s currently being adopted in Romania so our youngsters would like to share these good examples with youngsters from other countries, where deposit system is still absent. Talking about recycling, although being aware of importance of recycling, households come to many various reasons to justify themselves why they are not doing this (in most participating countries households don't receive fines for inappropriate waste sorting, what is more, they can choose whether they want to sorte waste as a private household or not). The most popular reasons mentioned were these: Reason no. 1 “we don’t have enough space in the cupboard under sink for additional bin”. It is surprising how often this reason was mentioned, more than half households said that they don’t have enough space under the sink for recycle bin. Doesn’t matter, whether they lived in two-room flat either in 200 sq.meters house – the reason was the same. Reason no. 2 “we don’t produce so much recyclable waste / almost nothing to recycle”. Although you can notice glass jar of mayonnaise, cartoon of milk and plastic package of tomatoes which all got in household trash bin in one day. Reason no. 3 “recycling containers are further from my home than household waste container / there is only household waste container in my yard, recycling containers are in the further yard” Reason no. 4 “we don’t have place for additional container next to our house” (applicable for private households - in some countries private households can decide whether they are willing to sort waste or not) Project’s partners and youngsters agree that recycling is important part of culture / behavior which should be better integrated into our everyday life. Most of them come from countries there recycling is not so common as it should and recycled part of waste doesn’t exceed 10%. They don’t have deposit system (e.g. Spain, Cyprus, Greece) yet and problems of not recycling are very common and similar with the ones provided. Partners from Romania claimed “Informing society is not enough. What is really needed - direct action. We need to effectively encourage society and cause their action of recycling”. According to European Environment Agency, EU countries should recycle at least 50% of their municipal waste, recycling an aluminium can save around 95% of the energy needed to make a new one from raw material. Objectives: O1: To raise awareness about consequences of unsorted waste and importance of recycling for young participants and their local communities O2: To introduce 5R method to young participants and their local communities. O3: To encourage young participants and their local communities to take direct action and responsibly sort waste by the end of project