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Plastic Trash Forming Into "Plastiglomerate" Rocks

Posted by samzenpus on from the earth-plus-plastic dept.

sciencehabit (1205606) writes 'Plastic may be with us a lot longer than we thought. In addition to clogging up landfills and becoming trapped in Arctic ice, some of it is turning into stone. Scientists say a new type of rock cobbled together from plastic, volcanic rock, beach sand, seashells, and corals has begun forming on the shores of Hawaii. The new material--which the researchers are calling a "plastiglomerate"--may be becoming so pervasive that it actually becomes part of the geologic record.'

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  1. Re:George Carlin called it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The planet isn't going away... we are!

    Let's hope so, and the sooner the better.

  2. Humans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well done humans. Polluting everything. Great work.

    You think you're going anywhere on a spaceship? You're already on one (Earth) that took zero effort to maintain, and you couldn't even manage that. You're going to be able to manage all the complex life support systems on a spaceship? Haha. Fools.