Dina Amin Breaks Down Products to Show How Much Waste They Generate

Dina Amin is an industrial designer who takes consumer products and breaks them apart to show exactly how much waste they generate. Using the stop-motion animation technique, she created a video called What’s Inside in which we see a number of old-school consumer products like a hairdryer and analog camera broke down to all the plastic, metal, and glass parts that were used to make them.

“On Fridays I pick a random product, I disassemble it, examine it and make a stop motion story with its parts,” Amin wrote on her website. She believes that we’re so used to consuming that we forgot all the work that goes into making a single product. When we throw something out, we see it as one thing that goes to waste, while in facts it’s many small things that were used to make it.

Click play below to see the video.