![A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island](https://s2.storage.snapzu.com/db/9f/7e/49/messi/snaps/94/d4/244247/thumbs/177ef83fa6b9fbe6_fpi_large.jpg)
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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