scientists find rocks made from plastic debris

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Geologists in Brazil’s Trindade Island have made a ”terrifying” discovery: rocks made from plastic debris.

Scientists studying the remote island – which is a turtle refuge – found that plastic has become intertwined with rocks on the island, sparking alarms over the growing impact of plastic waste over the earth’s geological cycles.

The island is located 1,140km from the southeastern state of Espirito Santo and it is a protected area for green turtles, which lay their eggs there.

“This is new and terrifying at the same time, because pollution has reached geology,” Fernanda Avelar Santos, a geologist at the Federal University of Parana, said,

Mr Santos went on to say that “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”.

[Quigga]

Can we use the mini plastic pebble rocks as a substitute for the running out sand?