A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island

By Jake Buehler

Image: Ignacio Gestoso

“Plasticrust” sticking to rocks on the shores of Madeira

If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging there. But researchers have identified a new, and perhaps more permanent type of plastic pollution, one that incorporates itself right into the rocky shoreline: “plasticrust,” a veneer of plastic encrusted right onto wave-licked rocks.

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