I regularly interact with aluminum cans. I usually drink energy drinks and I like pineapple juice. The way that these are packaged is always in cans. Naturally, when I am done drinking the contents of the drink I am left with the empty cans. This object is seen as disposable because it has served its purpose, and there are no further uses for the can. It has done its job of housing the sustenance that I paid for and now it is supposed to be recycled or thrown away. When I recycle the cans I have no real idea of where it will be going, I do not have much of an understanding of how Hampshire handles recycling. It is interesting to me that this item is only made to hold something that is consumed, there is no longevity of the object, and it is made to be tossed away once someone finishes it or has decided that they do not want it anymore. I also assume that when I buy the drink I am also paying for the can, the design of the can also makes it a single-use item because it cannot be resealed. I see this as a flawed, but deliberate design by these companies to make sure that people go back to buy their product. Honestly, it does work because I will end up going back to buy another one. This speaks to the larger problem of design and consumerism that is so present in the objects that we interact with, I also think that there is something to be said about the drink itself. This is another thing that these companies have control over, the drinks cannot be easily recreated.