China's Building an Eco-Sustainable City

retroworks writes: "Although I've been reading these stories for years, with some skepticism, I recently spoke with one of the USA's foremost CRT glass recycling experts. He had just returned from this Chinese "green city" and told me that it was going to be a game changer. The recycling yards have high tech metal testing labs. It's for real, he said. So should we clap loudly, or think of something snarky?"