Since our Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago, natural forces have shaped it. A unique mixture of the elements earth, air and water forms the basis for all life on our planet. Natural cycles ensured a biological equilibrium, but for about 12,000 years it has been shaken by man. At the beginning almost imperceptibly, but then more and more strongly. That is why scientists now want to name a new age of the earth: the Anthropocene, the age of man. If the change of the planet by the human being still happened creeping for millennia, then at the latest since 1945 it comes to the so-called "large acceleration" of this process connected with an enormous population growth. In addition, since then the two substances that could become the hallmark of the Anthropocene have also come into play: the legacies of nuclear research, as well as plastic.