Foreign media: human production of plastic or after a long period of time will ore-forming materials

Created in August 7 - the Brazil Sao Paulo page newspaper website reported on August 5, no one knows the middle of the 20th century, human production of 5. 5 billion tons of plastic what happens. Then most of them into the trash. But recently, researchers have found that the plastic can be transformation of ore-forming materials.

Plastiglomerado is a blend of natural and artificial materials. It is melting, there will be a sand, shells, pebble, basalt, coral, wood, etc. , of the stone and plastic mixture. As researchers in the GAS, oil and GAS engineering magazine Today report, plastic can have more stamina and can be converted into a kind of geological sign.

the university of Plymouth and did not take part in the study of professor Richard Thompson says, & other; Most of the traditional plastic is light and easy to break, but there is going to describe is a kind of is still very strong in the process of aging. ”

Plastiglomerado is in long beach, California, in 2006 the Marine research institute of Marine research expert Charles Moore. He was on the big island of Hawaii research of plastic on the beach.

sand due to the impact of the water is filled with trash, when looking at a strange rock surface covered with plastic, Charles took photos and collect specimens. And the importance of this discovery recognised only in 2012. Patricia cochran was invited to a university in Canada to Charles lecture on plastic pollution. She felt very curious, so she go to the beach and her colleagues gathered a large number of samples. According to

Moore, if if is the lava of kilauea volcano can form plastiglomerados, so the lava is not enough to sustain a century on the beach. In conversation with the local residents, Moore seemed to find the most plausible reason: the camp fire.

” Camp fire may devour the plastic, and the sand beach degradation of pollutants, this makes it almost impossible to find residual marks, thus forming a kind of geological, & throughout; Dr Cochran said after the first-hand investigation. Local residents also often adopt the incineration treatment of plastic, this way is very common in developing countries. She believes in other parts of the world must also exist Plastiglomerado, people just haven't found it so no one reported.

according to many scientists, the earth has entered a new geological era, in geology of activity in human activities on the evolution and development left a long impression.

” Plastic and Plastiglomerado may become a kind of fossil in the future, because they were in some way, buried in the geological layer for many years. Quietly recorded the changes of the earth and human, & throughout; The university of leicester, experts say. （ Practice compiler: Wu Dandan)