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Each stage answers the question left by the one before it: what is plastic doing, why does it stay, what can replace it, and what would living with that replacement require.
a trash diary, and what the polymer leaves inside us
A week of sorting household waste became a short history of synthetic polymers, from the ivory substitute of 1869 to the microplastics now found in water, blood and lungs.
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from the shelf to the bin, and out to sea
What the word polymer actually covers, why the numbered codes on packaging are not recycling marks, and how eight million tonnes of plastic reach the ocean every year.
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co-designing with mycelium
An interspecies design process that treats mycelium as a collaborator: choosing strains, preparing agricultural substrate, and growing simple containers instead of moulding them.
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the model we propose
The wider argument: land use, atmospheric carbon, the difference between natural circulation and industrial extraction, and a model in which humans and fungi keep each other's conditions alive.
enter projectAfter four stages, the open question is who keeps the growing conditions alive.
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