Plastic on the Menu: What Hedgehogs Are Really Eating with Emily Thrift

Plastic on the Menu: What Hedgehogs Are Really Eating with Emily Thrift, 7:30pm on Wednesday 12th November at Wagner Hall

So, what’s on the menu for hedgehogs these days? Alongside their natural prey of beetles, worms, and slugs, there may be an unexpected ingredient — plastic. This talk uncovers how plastic pollution makes its way to a hedgehog's stomach. While Emily's work has focussed on hedgehogs, her findings reveal how widespread microplastic pollution has become and how it is entering the food chains of wild animals and possibly humans.

Emily Thrift is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the presence of microplastics in wild terrestrial animals and the wider environment. Emily completed an MSci in Zoology at the University of Sussex.

Timings: Doors and bar open at 7:00pm, talk starts at 7:30. Short break at 8:15 before Q&A. Event ends 9:00pm approx.

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