Framing my works, without a major carbon footprint

As I have been collecting and developing ideas for my assemblages and I have also been in communication with my lecturer regarding the works. My next stumble is how to connect and frame my works,.Eco-as friendly a lot of the environmental waste Contemporary art works are connected via a glue gun, E.G :

“Thomas Deininger describes himself as an “optimistic Nihilist” who likes “making things to help me process the mayhem….maybe it’s just adding to the confusion.” He’s a gifted artist who re-uses trash to create his masterpieces” Playjunkie 2019

Watched a couple of documentaries on this artist and watching him make these amazing works he uses a hot platic glue gun, I find this an ironic because it’s another amount of plastic that’s going into the environment.

I could easily use a glue gun but I would like to experiment with the idea of other ways to connect and assemble that work together, especially because it’s going to only be photographed,And I also think it adds another element to the work that connects to the same subject of waste. E.G Melting could be relating to temperature and climate change, Ice could be relating to plastic being frozen in time, Water floating cold be from the view of the fish, wrapping in found plastic could be the layering and suffocation of plastic.

I’m looking at other options I have been coming up with a few ideas that don’t use glue guns these ideas are:

• Creating blocks of ice placing the items inside and then freezing them and then photographing If I did this I would have to locate the sScanner.
• Using a copy stands laser printer and layering the works like I did last year and one of my photo assignments if I did this one I would have to locate a scanner.
• Melting the objects so they form one like a bar of soap. If I did this I would need to use an oven,Or a barbecue grill and I’m not sure how to go with the fumes.
• Rolling squashing/flattening the works under a large plastic Perspex sheet if I did this I would need to hire a roller from a machinery hire.
• Sewing if I can actually attach the items with pieces of cotton or wire or actually plastic over plastic and then sewing underneath because it could be that it’s suffocating.
• Water floating the chosen materials on the water and actually photographing from underneath, for this I would need a fish tank tank.
• Gelatin moulds Being stuck and also allowing the place to pieces to be in place before it goes hard in comparison to freezing where they might be around.