Knowledge Is Power

Hi there, and welcome to my capstone project at Lasell College. I chose focus my semester-long project on plastic pollution in the ocean and how it impacts humans, animals, and the environment.

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"This plastic man will come into a world of colour and bright shining surfaces where childish hands find nothing to break, no sharp edges, or corners to cut or graze, no crevices to harbour dirt or germs … . The walls of his nursery, his bath … all his toys, his cot, the moulded light perambulator in which he takes the air, the teething ring he bites, the unbreakable bottle he feeds from. As he grows he cleans his teeth and brushes his hair with plastic brushes, clothes himself with in plastic clothes, writes his first lesson with a plastic pen and does his lessons in a book bound with plastic. The windows of his school curtained with plastic cloth entirely grease- and dirt-proof … and the frames, like those of his house are of moulded plastic, light and easy to open never requiring any paint."

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"wears a denture with silent plastic teeth and spectacles with plastic lenses … until at last he sinks into his grave in a hygienically enclosed plastic coffin." (Yarsley & Couzens, 1945)

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Yarsley V. E., Couzens E. G. 1945 Plastics. Middlesex: Penguin Books Limited