Mining for Plastics - circa 2150

Humans have inundated the world with plastics. We see plastic nurdles everywhere.
Humans have driven the crude oil supplies to precariously low levels that it is impossible to extract oil at a reasonable cost!!!

This could all happen in the next hundred years. What would it take us to clean up the environment. Would the landfills become the sources of material in the future, well it could be so.

The most valuable resource in the world is the Landfill of today. Humans might make a way out to use the nurdles and plastic all over the place and digest it into energy and fuel. Plastics are formed from petroleum products and a new way to digest them and make them into energy may be the way to go.

At the present production levels, there would be nothing left other than tons and tons of plastics across the world. From Antarctica to the Arctic the world is a big garbage bin and humans would start to mine this waste in hundred years to power themselves for the next 100 years. What next?

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