Lots of the products we use every day are not made to last very long, yet the materials they are made from last forever. This creates a huge mismatch between the life of a product and the life of its material, turning objects into waste very quickly and leaving a long-term environmental impact.

I wanted to question this mismatch by exploring materials that either:

• Are not everlasting and can return safely to the environment once their life is over, or

• Are already considered waste but still have a lot of usable life left.