Synopsis
Professor Iain Stewart explains how sediment becomes rock and thus how plastic waste will impact future rock.
- Programme: How Earth Made Us
- Episode: Human Planet
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Geography | Sustainability | Sustainability and sustainable resources | What are sustainable resources?
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