The Chemical Future

As a bachelor of science specialising in the field of chemistry, I have a theory about what the future will be like, and it's based on the past.

In the past, in dinosaur times, the creature and the trees would die, fall on the floor and slowly be turned into coal and oil. Amazing, but true.

These days we are using thing like computers and plastics and just throwing them into landfill. So I think when the humans have all died out and the next species to claim dominance (I like to think they would be called the Allenites) has developed the technology to dig down, they will find some fuel made from the thing we threw away. Some super fuel made from discarded mobile phone and bin liners.

It's just a shame no one will be around to see it.

But maybe we should think about how to put that off for as long as we can. There's no point rushing towards our extinction just so the Allenites can take over. And that's why we need to recycle more.

For example, high density polyethylene (or HDPE to you, me and the Allenites) is a plastic that is widely used, and it can be recycled. It's exactly what we should be doing. HDPE Scrap can be collected and recycled and therefore doesn't fill up the landfill as much.

It makes sense. All plastics are just polymers (chemical chains of repeating units) so they seem like exactly the materials we should be reusing. And seeing as plastics are very biodegradable, if we throw them away they will take thousands of years to form the kind of products the Allenites will use, so recycle people. Come on.

You can read more at www.hdpescrap.com if you want.