30 days of design a collection of food containers by hyunjin cho from uk

Every week we accumulate a sizable bag of food containers that are set out to the curbside to be "recycled". This our attempt to understand the relationship between our food consumption and its accompanying containers over a period of 30 days. (The hard food containers are shown in our poster design. We did not include soft plastic/paper bags and boxes.)

Does food have to represent to waste?
Is designing/making recyclable containers doing enough?
Is it possible to eliminate or "un-design" the containers themselves?

Front : An inventory of 30 days of food containers consumed by us
Back : An inventory of the food consumed by us in 30 days of containers

How are we to speak of these 'common things’, how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are. - George Perec (in L’Infra-ordinaire)

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things –products, packaging, and systems– from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist. - Michael Braungart and William McDonough (in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things)