{"id":6643,"date":"2023-03-18T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:36:37","slug":"what-are-plastic-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-plastic-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Plastic Rocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Plastic Rocks:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Melted plastic has become intertwined with rocks on the island, located 1,140 km (708 miles) from the southeastern state of Espirito Santo.<\/li>\n<li>They are made of a mixture of <strong>sedimentary granules<\/strong> and other debris held together by<\/li>\n<li>The pollution on this island mainly comes from fishing nets, which are very common debris on Trinidad Island\u2019s beaches.<\/li>\n<li>The (nets) are dragged by the marine currents and accumulate on the beach. When the temperature rises, this plastic melts and becomes embedded with the beach\u2019s natural material.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Trindade Island<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>South Atlantic Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the world\u2019s most important <strong>conservation spots for green turtles, or Chelonia mydas, <\/strong>with thousands arriving each year to lay their eggs.<\/li>\n<li>The members of the Brazilian navy maintain a base on the island and protects the nesting turtles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Why are Chelonia mydas called Green Turtles and where are they normally found?<\/h3>\n<p>Green turtles are named for the greenish colour of their cartilage and fat, not their shells and are found mainly in tropical and subtropical waters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/brazil-plastic-rocks-remote-island-8500915\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brazilian researchers find \u2018terrifying\u2019 plastic rocks on remote island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic rocks are a mixture of sedimentary granules &#038; melted plastic that intertwine with rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}