My group chose to write about the topic of littering while putting some notice in the Keep America Beautiful organization.
This picture shows our infographic on Reddit. The post totaled four likes and five comments in the first 24 hours of the posting. It is now at seven likes and comments. The perceived outcome was overall low because we only got six comments on the post. However, the comments were positive for the most part with one of the commentators saying they would look into the website more to see if any volunteering opportunities were near them. One Redditor stated “I go to car parks to put loose cans in the rubbish bins. I may look into this site and see if they have any events near me. Cheers.”Because of this, I believe that our infographic helped some people get introduced to Keep America Beautiful and possibly spark an interest in volunteering for this cause.
This picture shows our poster hanging up on a wall in The Flip (Xavier RLC Dorms). Although we haven’t been able to keep full surveillance over this infographic like our Reddit post, we did see a few students looking at our poster. We didn’t notice anyone taking a picture of it to share, however. The perceived outcome was low from what we observed but could have been higher since we couldn’t determine the full traffic the infographic got.
We also put our infographic on a Discord for a Pokemon Club recognized by SCU. Most of the reactions that were received were polite saying that they thought the infographic looked nice and the information on the infographic was good. One student said that it “looks great” and that Joshua and I “did a good job”. We additionally got some people to take our survey through the QR code which was helpful. The perceived outcome from posting on the discord went well. We got a lot of good feedback and some people even did our surveys.
Finally, I posed the infographic in a friend group on messenger. From analyzing the data, this is where most of the survey response came in from and the overall feedback from my friends was good. Some of my friends said they never heard of Keep America Beautiful but the organization sounded interesting.
In addition to the infographic, we also sent out a survey or participants to complete. Most of the answers were predictable like people don’t litter consciously, people throw away their garbage for the most part, and feel like litter is very detrimental to the environment. However, the question “In a public place, who is responsible for picking up litter”, 64% of people believed it to be the workers’ job to clean up after people, and 27% of people thought it was everyone’s responsibility. I think to help reduce litter significantly, these percentages will have to flip. If more people believe that it was everyone responsibilities, social pressure would make people want to clean up after themselves.
Overall, I believe our campaign to spread awareness about littering was successful. Posting our information in multiple areas both on campus and online helped us reach a wider audience and gain a better sense of what people thought about our issue and how informative our infographic was. Finally, our posteres helped inform people of what Keep America Beautiful was and how they could help the cause to help reduce litter in the environment.
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