Kelly Jazvac (Canada)
Patricia Corcoran (Canada)
Charles Moore (US)
Plastiglomerates 2013. Each year, tons of plastic garbage wash up on Kamilo Beach in Hawaii. Some of the debris end up in recreational bonfires, where it fuses with the sand creating dense conglomerates that geologist, Patricia Corcoran, oceanographer, Charles Moore, and artist, Kelly Jazvac named ‘plastiglomerates’. The heavier fragments will potentially be preserved in the sediment record, leaving a permanent human-made mark in Earth’s stratigraphy. Plastiglomerate samples are “fossils from the future.” contributing to the recognition of the Anthropocene as a new geological era - an epic during which human activity has had profound influence on Earth’s systems.
