Science Lab

Today I am going to blog about Room 14's experience in the Manchester Science Lab. We read a excerpt from an article about how much we use plastic, and how it is affecting us. We also found out about a recent test on the affect of plastic. A group of people with the same blood type was divided in half, and fed three meals for a week. The only difference was that Group A received soup from a can, and Group B received  homemade soup. At the end of the week, Group A had 1000% more plastic in their blood. That thousand percent was only from the plastic lining inside the container, because everything else in the groups was the same. We also looked at a cartoon of a typical kitchen. We had one minute to circle everything containing plastic inside it. In the end, the only things not containing plastic was the doorknob and the glass windows, both of which were 99.99999999999999999% packaged and/or shipped in plastic. The big deal about plastic is that it's bad for us. The estimate of children born autistic is now 1 of of 35. In America!!! (If you don't  know what autism is follow this link: Autism: A Scientific Explanation. In other words, autistic people react negatively to most simulation of the senses (especially sound or touch). Autistic people do not like physical contact with other humans and react dramatically. Many are attentive to details and can be set of easily. For more information, decrypt the article yourself) The last thing we did was list everything we came into contact with, from waking up to falling asleep, that had plastic on an average day. We had five minutes. I only got to the beginning of the school day. I listed 35 items which didn't even cover everything. It would have taken me forever just to list everything in my room! Even though it has many drawbacks, plastic is good in some cases, such as hospitals and rubber tires where it has made many advances possible. I will now name 6,000,000,000 unique substances that all contain plastic in what will take the average person less that ten seconds to read, unless they are deliberately trying to prove me wrong: Everyone in the world. Done. Sort of freaks you out, doesn't it?

WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREMELY BIASED POST. I HAVE NEITHER THE TIME, PATIENCE OR KNOWLEDGE TO LIST MORE BENEFITS OF PLASTIC.