We've found a whole new type of rock in Hawaii, and it isn't what you might think. Hawaii is very volcanic, so you might anticipate it's a new kind of igneous rock, but it isn't. No, it's a plastic conglomerate that scientists are calling plastiglomerate. Yes, plastic, which takes long enough to degrade as it is, can now become a rock, and hang around even longer. It forms whenever the plastic melts and incorporates itself with whatever is around it.
Originally scientists thought it was just unique to the area due to volcanism, but since there hasn't been any volcanic activity in that section of Hawaii since plastic was invented, it can't be that. The best theory now is whenever plastic is burned for whatever reason it melds with the area around and forms these rocks. Because of this, these plastic rocks are probably in many places all around the world, and are a permanent reminder of just how much we use plastic, and that we really don't take very good care of our disposal processes.
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