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Mongabay (mongabay@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:01:42 JST Mongabay

Scientists are finding more evidence of a new, insidious form of plastic pollution: melted plastic that has melded with rocks, coral and other naturally occurring material in coastal areas.
Samples of these “Frankenrocks” collected from a single beach on a single island in Indonesia were likely formed by the burning of plastic trash.
By Basten Gokkon
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/plastics-waste-marine-ocean-beaches-pollution-plastiglomerate-pyroplastic-plasticrust/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Oceans #Plastic #Pollution
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1. Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment
  
  from Basten Gokkon
  
  JAKARTA — Uncontrolled burning of plastic waste on Indonesian beaches has given rise to plastic-rock hybrids that deposit in and may pollute coastal ecosystems and fisheries, a new study has found. Molten plastic mixed with natural and artificial debris, known as plastiglomerate, and other new forms of plastic pollution were found on an island beach […]

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