This effort of mapping and understanding this specific waste stream attempts to provide useful insights for communities and individuals interested in working with waste as a resource or pollution remediation, who need to understand where it is generated, where it goes, what forms it takes, and who are stakeholders and/or potential suppliers.

The information is presented in the format of a zine that contains maps, diagrams, photos, research insights and ideas that show the textile waste derives, as well as the research derives taken to obtain the information. The visual contents are built and assembled together through collaging screenshots of digital scientific literature and web searches, with field photos, photos of material samples, microfiber homemade samplings, written notes and graphic observations.

Besides identifying the types of textile wastes, their location in the territory and the actors involved in its transformation, the Waste Atlas intends to provide a method to map other waste streams in any given territory. This first volume was developed as a pilot project for the application of the research-creation methodology towards the creation of materials from waste, in the course DES 226 - Studio Practice and Critique, as part of the Master of Fine Arts in Design at the University of California, Davis.

MaterialS, education