Professor Ian Shaw’s lecture, “The Life and Afterlife of Plastics,” explores the profound impact of plastics from their invention in 1907 to their widespread presence and growing environmental and health challenges today. He describes how plastics, after their useful life, often end up as waste in landfills and oceans, where they degrade into microplastics - tiny particles now found everywhere in the environment.
This lecture highlights the insidious pathway by which microplastics enter food chains and even plants, resulting in human consumption and health risks, raising urgent, unresolved questions about their long-term effects on human and ecological health.
> When: Thursday 2 October 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm.
> Where: Wairarapa Events Centre, 50 Holloway Street, Carterton.
> RSVP - using the TICKET link below.
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Professor Ian Shaw (DSc, PhD, FRCPath) is Professor of Toxicology at the University of Canterbury. He is an international expert on the impact of environmental contaminants on human health, particularly in a food safety context and is a passionate communicator of science. He has had over 40 years’ experience in academia, industry and government, both in the UK and New Zealand, which includes chairing the UK government’s Pesticide Residues Committee and working as the National Food Safety Programme Manager at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) in New Zealand.
Professor Ian Shaw has been a member of many government advisory committees including (in New Zealand) the Royal Society of NZ’s health impacts of climate change advisory group, The Ministry of Health’s fortification of food with folate panel, and the NZ Police and NZ Transport Agency’s setting statutory limits for drug driving offences advisory group. He has written 6 books and published 170 scientific papers. He won the NZ Association of Scientists’ Science Communicator’s Award in 2009 and was awarded a DSc by the University of Bath for his international work in toxicology, food safety and science communication in 2019; but his greatest joy is being awarded Science Lecturer of the Year by the University of Canterbury Students’ Association in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020.
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