ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a range of recycled products on a scale of manufacture from one-off, to batch- to mass-production. It examines the cultural work done by recycled things, from the familiar to the exotic, the mundane to the aspirational. Recycled products that visibly express their remade nature are contrasted with those that do not. Examples include the homemade and the industrially manufactured, and all points in between. This is followed by a consideration of the ultimate products of recycling culture, those that exist solely to serve the activity of recycling itself by enabling sorting and collection of unwanted things. The aesthetics of recycling are then considered, not just in terms of a recycled product’s appearance, but as a quality of a recycling system.
