Brazil’s volcanic Trindade Island reportedly has been of significant interest to scientists for years, but newly discovered rocks made up of plastic debris concerns them.
You read that right! Melted plastic has fused with rocks on this Brazilian island. Hence, researchers say this proof of humanity’s influence on the Earth’s geological cycle, according to a report fromFernanda Avelar Santos, a geologist at the Federal University of Parana, and her team conducted tests and identified the plastic that fused with the rocks: “plastiglomerates.
Nevertheless, the discovery of plastic rocks on the island is alarming and speaks to humanity’s legacy on earth and how people have impacted ecosystems and geology, according to Santos. “We talk so much about the Anthropocene, and this is it,” Santos continued. “The pollution, the garbage in the sea, and the plastic dumped incorrectly in the oceans is becoming geological material … preserved in the earth’s geological records.”
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