In this article we argue for the productive and generative possibilities of waste. Waste is not wasted rather waste produces and creates in multiples. Waste has geographies and localities which determine and characterize its connections to people, places, things, and matter. Both matter and waste-matter also have material, political, and biopolitical consequences for places, humans, and non-humans. In this spirit, we explore the boundaries and value of waste in our own academic production and the academic production of others while interacting with and collecting waste. Using the waste materials, and drawing from Viney, Thill, Massumi, and Bauman, we interrogate the conditionality of waste respective of time, the ways in which waste is ordered and reordered, and a reconsideration of capital-value discourse and waste. By doing this we hope to elicit alternative ways to process, consume, and create scholarship outside of the contained, knowable ways so common in Academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]