Environment
Plastic: Fossils of the Future
Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem - about 32 million tons of US plastic waste was generated in 2012, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, researchers have discovered an unexpected way that some plastic waste is persisting: as a stone.
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