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Human Waste Is Now Turning Into New Types of Minerals

2026-02-05 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about strange minerals that seem to be entirely human made and are the result of our trash - anthropoclastic rock cycle is here! Links: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/7/581/653591/Evidence-for-a-rapid-anthropoclastic-rock-cycle?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2020/3204-lithification-and-biodiversity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastiglomerate https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-019-0010-9 Related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeMVnv8zzvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2w3zWzADgo 0:00 How mineralization usually works 1:10 But humans changed things a bit 2:05 Discovery in England - steel based minerals 4:00 How this happens and why it's so surprising 6:20 Turns out we also made plastic minerals too - Plastiglomerates 8:30 Technofossils 9:30 Is this a problem though? 11:10 Conclusions and what's next? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Javier Rubilar CC BY SA 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag#/media/File:Caletones.jpg PlasticH8r CC BY SA 4.0 Knud Winckelmann CC BY SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag#/media/File:Slag_from_iron_ore_melting.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastiglomerate#/media/File:Plastiglomerate_forming_a_marker_horizon_in_sediment_layers.svg Hcirllej CC BY SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plasticrust,_Giglio,_Italy_(2).jpg Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@the_sidewinder 2026-02-06

Damn it now I'm so old there's literally rocks younger than me........

6.6k 91 replies
@sheltiesongs7378 2026-02-07

I can’t wait to be a geologist who gets to find real rocks made of plastic that originally was fake plastic rocks.

6.1k 92 replies
@greak7116 2026-02-05

Crapstone, dregstone and scrappite.

4.8k 111 replies
@mick62569 2026-02-05

Earth really looked at our trash and said Fine I’ll file it under sedimentary evidence

4.6k 48 replies
@christopherg2347 2026-02-06

"That is going into your permanent geological record, humanity."

2.0k 22 replies
@Ozmic951 2026-02-07

Plastic ore unlocked

1.9k 19 replies
@HoundofDarkness 2026-02-09

How long until I see "Naturally occuring plastic bracelets" on etsy?

960 6 replies
@BodilyFunction 2026-02-09

At some point garbage dumps will become mining sites for stuff

287 11 replies
@arlen7726 2026-02-07

10:34 I’m waiting for the discovery of a new marine species that turns plastic-mineral chemicals into poison to defend against predators. 😅

267 24 replies
@TheUnhousedWanderer 2026-02-08

Humans: "Plastic is bad!" Mother Earth: "New diamond just dropped, y'all." 💎

192 2 replies

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