Still Life

12 million tons of furniture are discarded per year in the United States. 9 million tons end up in landfills, comprising 5% of all municipal solid waste and constituting the second-largest portion of urban waste - F-WASTE. The high demand for new furniture in the United States (5% of total global exports; $120 billion annually) is contributing to the loss of forests not only in the United States, but also in West-Central Africa, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. We are losing 18.7 million acres of forest every year. Some logging is illegal, and although some are from so-called "sustainable" logging, it may not be less harmful than any other logging. The furniture used in these images was collected during bulk trash day 2021.