Twenty years of visits to Tohoku to photograph how waste gathered from all over the region is dismantled, sorted and processed into new products, which Ichigo Sugawara finds beautiful. The subjects, chosen from towering mounds of metal piled up for shipment abroad, are alien yet sculptural lumps of iron, along with railway wheels, radiators, cars, mobile phones, laptops, aluminium and steel cans and PET flakes, photographed like objects with heavy machinery and equipment set up for the shoot and a 150-megapixel camera, then printed with a special technique that gives volume and presence. The book collects 96 images made at the sites of a recycling company in Aomori that processed much of the debris after the 2011 earthquake, and argues that recycling will move from processing towards creation, protecting beauty and making beauty.