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A standout moment from the talk was a powerful reflection on the rise of plastic over Richard Thompson’s lifetime, using a childhood photograph and the same toy today to show just how long plastic lasts.
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Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS with the same toy he had from a photograph in his childhood in the 1960s with a graph showing the cumulative plastic waste rise over his lifetime
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM