Saving the sounds of Superstition

We live with man-made materials all around us, to the point that most of us have long since stopped noticing all of them. The attention paid to how to get rid of these items is fitting, and in many cases long overdue, but there is a little-known problem at the other end of the scale: what if you want these plastics and polymers to stay around? Just like they were when they were made?