Why This Matters
Why This Matters
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Campus Habits
Campus Habits
Every day at Wake Forest, hundreds of packages arrive for students. Each box, each plastic mailer, each piece of packing tape becomes waste. Most of it enters the recycling stream, but recycling isn't a perfect solution.
The Global Impact
The Global Impact
Single-use plastics and packaging waste often end up in waterways, breaking down into microplastics that harm marine life. Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. They get entangled in packaging materials. Their habitats are choked by our consumption.
The Connection
The Connection
This sculpture makes that connection visible. The same materials used to ship your textbooks, deliver your snacks, and package your online orders become the body of a sea turtle, an animal directly threatened by plastic waste.
Questions?
Questions?
Contact frees25@wfu.edu or malalm25@wfu.edu to get more information on the project
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