The latest sign that plastic pollution is a gigantic global problem: rocks fused with melted plastic have been found on a remote Brazilian island, best known as a nesting site for green turtles.

Along with her colleagues, Ms Santos was able to classify the plastic rocks from Trindade into one of various types. These included “plastiglomerates”, which are similar to conglomerate-based ...

It’s marbled through with eerie streaks of orange, making it look like a slab of rock quarried from some alien landscape. This slab, though, is made of melted waste plastic from the Detroit auto ...

thin films of plastic waste chemically bonded to rocks. The finding adds to scientists’ growing recognition that plastics have become part of Earth’s geology. In 2020, geologists described ...

(Gray News) – Scientists say humankind’s influence on the natural world has reached a new level as a new type of sedimentary rocks partially formed from plastic has been discovered. This new ...