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Everyday items like clothing, plastics and packaging can last centuries. Here’s how long they tend to breakdown and why design and consumer choices must change.

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.