Subhechcha Ganguly 
A plastic-rock hybrid known as plastiglomerate is made out of sand, rock fragments, shells, and other things bound together by plastic. It is a brand-new type of plastic pollution that was identified by researchers in 2014. During normal monitoring of marine debris in some of the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a group of marine researchers found a plastic-made chunk of rock. The first such find from India is a rock that was found on a beach on Aves Island. A plastic-rock hybrid known as plastiglomerate is made out of sand, rock fragments, shells, and other things bound together by plastic. It is a brand-new type of plastic pollution that was identified by researchers in 2014.
“This is the first Plastiglomerate discovery from India. According to a laboratory analysis, it contains the two widely used plastic polymers polyethene and polyvinyl chloride, which were holding the smaller rock and sand particles together to form a rock that was roughly the same size as those found along railway tracks, according to Punyasloke Bhadury, a professor of biological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata.Elsevier, a Dutch academic publishing corporation that specialises in scientific, technical, and medical content, published the findings in Marine Plastic Pollution, a peer-reviewed publication, in March of last year. Many seabirds, sea turtles, seals, and other marine mammals are killed every year as a result of ingesting plastic or becoming entangled in it as a result of the global disaster caused by plastic accumulation in oceans and on beaches.
According to recent studies, the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands are becoming more and more threatened by plastic pollution. According to a study published in Current Science in 2019, five islands in the archipelago—a collection of islands strewn over lakes, rivers, and the ocean—had plastic from 10 or more Asian nations, including Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.
