A plasticglomerate is a solid mixture of molten plastic and natural materials, a kind of hybrid rock born of pollution. When surveying the beaches of Okinawa, Japan, researchers thought they were dealing with dead coral fragments with unusual hues. Laboratory analysis would reveal a much more disturbing reality, however, in [...]
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A plasticglomerate is a solid mixture of molten plastic and natural materials, a kind of hybrid rock born of pollution. When surveying the beaches of Okinawa, Japan, researchers thought they were dealing with dead coral fragments with unusual hues. Laboratory analysis would reveal a much more disturbing reality, however, in [...]