Tag: Geology

Plastic Waste Fuses with Rocks to Create Technofossils

Plastic Waste Fuses with Rocks to Create Technofossils

There are multiple types of these plastic-rock hybrids. Plastistones are formed when plastic melts and bonds with existing rocks. Plastistone is used as an “umbrella term” for these plastic and rock mixtures. Other categories of plastistones include plastiglomerates, which are rocks made from sedimentary particles and other debris held together by melted plastic. First discovered […]

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