Selfridges commissioned Smile Plastics to create the ‘plastics’ theme of their Material World season, which is installed in the atrium of Selfridges. The idea behind it was to invite visitors to question the materials we wear and the effects they have on our local and global communities. For the plastics instalment of the season we created two giant globes encrusted in beads (totalling around 3,000 individual beads) made from our yoghurt pot material, Alba. These were then suspended from the atrium next to a layered kidney bean also made from recycled yoghurt pots.