Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumA Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island
Jake Buehler, gizmodo.com
If you go to the beach, youre likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging there. But researchers have identified a new, and perhaps more permanent type of plastic pollution, one that incorporates itself right into the rocky shoreline: plasticrust, a veneer of plastic encrusted right onto wave-licked rocks.
https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-strange-new-blend-of-rock-and-plastic-is-forming-on-a-1835742900
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Millions years from now there are going to be some very interesting rocks around from the things we leave behind. For example, all the garbage dumps around the globe, imagine what the earth will do with those over deep time. I'm hoping to be around to appreciate it but odds are against that.
localroger
(3,605 posts)...will totally mystify them 60 million years from now.
mahina
(17,506 posts)You have to laugh sometimes yeah I know, its not funny.
kat3rinamarquez
(47 posts)Looking at million years from now. People (if they still exist) will mine these to form another type of product. I hope they find my fossil though. Kidding.