Conceptualizing waste

An Object that I see often is the Plastic utensil, the one I will be using to day is a plastic fork. The fork is supposed to be single use and it is shown by not only the material it is made out of that is a brittle and flimsy plastic. The waste can be seen as an archive on a way how we eat and how we eat food now as this object is for eating on the go and one can assume when eating with a plastic fork it is for less fancy foods like meals stored in plastic containers for on the go eating. The waste is out of place due to being on the ground and not with a meal. It is also a commodity for the way we eat our meals for without it the meals would be messy. It is also a fetish for disorder as it is used as a sign of dignified eating but they seem to be found everywhere they are not “supposed” to be. Out of the readings I learned that an object as simple as a plastic fork can have a lot more behind it from its creation to what it is supposed to be used for and the amount of effort is put into this way of eating and after we are done with the fork we just dispose of it. The Amount of effort put into making shipping and selling into these forks just for them to be thrown away after one meal. This reading helped me digest the thought that our waste was important before being used.