This symposium, supported by the Victoria and Albert Museum, was held to celebrate and disseminate the findings of the EU funded project, Preservation of Plastic ARTefacts (PopART). It brought together academics, artists, designers, manufacturers, conservators and curators to discuss the impact of plastics on art and design and their future potential in our lives. A thread running through the papers and discussion was eco design and sustainable use of plastics. Julie Behseta studied ‘Textiles for the Interior and Products’ at London Metropolitan University and at the time of the symposium was a Research Student at the Royal College of Art. Her practice-led research focuses on post consumer and industrial waste, especially high density polyethylene, and results in the creation of recycled materials with new functions and new meanings. She talked about her research under the title Attachment through the unattached. She gave her paper jointly with Emma Neuberg. Dr Emma Neuberg was, when the seminar took place, Lecturer in Sustainable Design at Southampton University. She is an associate of the Textiles Futures Research Centre (UAL) where her contribution is as practitioner/theorist in polymeric materials and culture. In 2009, she set up the Slow Textiles Group, a platform for applying slow theory to materials. Group members, Julie and Emma apply slow thinking to their research. Emma's presentation was entitled New Vision: The Plastics Eco Industrial Park.