Information from Waste

How does the future decipher our waste?

Plastic needs around 500 years to dissolve and while that it breaks up into ever smaller pieces. A lot of the waste ends up in the oceans and gathers at particular places, e.g. the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Because of its longevity our waste could serve as a source of information for the future. These could be about the origin, the way how it moved around the globe, how plastic products were produced and consumed and maybe about the users. But maybe future societies would not recognise it as waste but as valuable remnants of former societies.

But would they believe we used this high-quality material for disposable products?