Critiquing the “recycling myth” of UK waste management (where almost all UK recyclable waste is either incinerated or shipped abroad to be dumped in poorer nations), The proposal creates interlocking secant piles of concrete generated from processed waste, which are cast using the landfill as form-work. The project proposed a series of looming walkways constructed from over 13,000 interlocking secant piles of concrete, generated from a novel method of plasma-heated waste. The result is a landscape of the sublime, bringing consumers face to face with their discards. The themes explored in this project have metastasised into my ongoing research project which explores our relation to the earth and the concept of the centre/periphery in bodily and ecological thought.

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