Homeland could be the place where one was born, or where one lives and has been striving for a good life. In China, there are groups of people who make a living by collecting waste from the city and selling it to downstream markets. They are usually migrant workers from the countryside who are struggling in cities. A well researched site is a village named Dongxiaokou on the outskirts of Beijing. This village witnessed its heyday in manual waste recycling before the government started to displace this population in the 2010s. To the rest of Beijing these people and their work don’t look appealing. However, considering the amount of waste they helped the city to process, they should be treated with respect and care instead of being displaced. This project is about reconsidering waste – not only in China, but also around the world. By looking into possibilities of using plastic waste as a construction material, this project proposed a workshop for empowering displaced people by inviting them to return and work here.