TrashPrize
Civic cleanup prizes

Put a prize
on the trash.

Fund a prize on trash. Someone cleans it. The proof gets verified. The prize gets paid. Pay only when the block is actually clean.

Point a phone at the trash. Clean to claim the prize.

WANTED
Reward for cleaning
$100
Prize funded
verified by the Referee · proof required
How it works

Three steps.

Spot a mess, fund a prize

See a mess. Snap it in the app. Put up a prize, ten dollars or a thousand, whatever a clean block is worth.

Hunt the prize, clean to claim

A hunter claims the prize, does the work, and sends before-and-after proof right from the spot.

Verified, prize paid

The Referee checks the proof against the original. Real cleanup, prize paid. No cleanup, no payout.

For funders

The prize is safe until the work is real.

Funding a prize isn't a donation into the dark. The prize is held the moment the poster goes live and moves only when a cleanup is verified. A bad cleanup is never paid.

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Set the price

Ten dollars for a curb, a thousand for a lot. The funder decides what the mess is worth.

Held, not spent

The prize is locked the instant it's funded, released only on verified proof.

Pay for proof

No before-and-after match, no payout. The payment is for a clean block, not a promise.

Spend it local

Fund a corner down the block. Watch the neighborhood actually get clean.

Where $100 goes

1
Fund $100The prize is held the moment the poster goes live.
2
A hunter claims itThey clean the spot and submit before-and-after proof.
3
The Referee checksSame place, actually cleaned, safe job. Anything unclear goes to a person.
The verification engine

The prize board is the storefront. The Referee is the infrastructure.

Same seven rules. Same New Haven scope. Every claim judged before a cent moves.

Matches the proof

The cleaned-area photo must be shot from the same spot as the trashed-area photo. A recycled photo gets caught.

Refuses the unsafe

Needles, roadways, belongings, memorials. Never a prize, never a liability.

Flags the unclear

Anything borderline goes to a human, not a guess. The benefit of the doubt costs nothing.

Tested against hundreds of real cleanups and staged cheats before a single dollar was ever at stake.

Why it works

Money is how care travels between strangers.

Built for

  • Cities turning a maintenance line item into a prize board residents actually use
  • Land trusts and conservancies funding upkeep, not just acquisition
  • Business districts and neighborhoods that want a clean block this week
  • Anyone who'd rather pay for proof than pay for a promise

Grants build the park. Capital cuts the ribbon. Then the litter comes back and nobody's paid to pick it up. TrashPrize is the rails for paid civic upkeep.

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See it work

Point a phone at the trash.

Snap a photo of a mess and watch a real prize poster appear, reward and all. Point it at something it should refuse, and watch it say no.

Open the live demo