Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management. Therefore, we assessed the feasibility of the crowdsourcing method to provide an alternative approach that can improve household waste segregation using an "online-slogan-contest".

Methods

The contest was promoted via targeted emails to various governmental and non-governmental organizations and through social media platforms for around 4 weeks (25 days). The entries were received through a Google form. The slogans were assessed by the experts and analyzed using content analysis methods.

Results

Total 969 entries were received from different geographic regions in Indi

SUBMITTER: Krishnan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10600395 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature