Despite the difficulties in making the recycling of plastics economically attractive on a large scale, many successful processes have been developed for more narrowly defined "niche" applications.
Ultimately, the site is intended to make the recycling of e-waste more convenient for New Yorkers before a state law banning the disposal of electronics in the regular trash takes effect in 2015.
Of the 37 eligible municipalities, 18 are participating, but Mr. Hogan's plan to make the recycling of yard waste as automatic as the collection of paper, glass and plastic is encountering growing pains.
So Mr. Newsom will soon be sending the city's Board of Supervisors a proposal that would make the recycling of cans, bottles, paper, yard waste and food scraps mandatory instead of voluntary, on the pain of having garbage pickups suspended.
The combination of hazardous materials such as mercury and liquid crystal, and the labor-intensive disassembly of LCD TVs, make the recycling process interesting to automate.
She takes out the trash, makes sure the recycling is sorted properly, and lets the exterminator into each of the building's three apartments once a month.
"They make the references, recycling the decades, but they don't know where they're from".
Workers like Guan and Jinling ensure not all materials end up in landfill, but price fluctuations can make the informal recycling unpredictable.
These products represent a risk for the environment, as they make the conventional recycling process more complicated.
After Cr leaching followed by alkali washing, a carbonation treatment is proposed to stabilize the remaining Cr in the matrix material and make the subsequent recycling of the matrix material as a construction material possible.
