Plastics in the Environment

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• Claire Barlow, Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing, IfM
• Thursday 30 October 2025, 18:45-20:00
• Main Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

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Claire Barlow will talk about plastics: amazing materials that have transformed our lives, but at a cost. Their durability, one of the properties that makes them so useful, means that large and small pieces of plastic waste find their way into the natural environment, causing many different problems.

We will look at where the plastic waste comes from, and investigate some of the ways in which it affects living organisms. Solutions are not easy, but there are a lot of good initiatives and there is some hope for the future.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Natural History Society series.

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