4.1.3. Treatment and recycling status
After the waste printers are collected, they can flow in five directions:
second-hand products; municipal solid waste (MSW);
informal recycling sector; formal recycling sector; or back to the
producers. The second-hand products will be reused in enterprises
and households, and will not enter the waste stream; the unusable
materials from waste printers are put into the garbage bin, and are
mixed with MSW, which is processed through either incineration
or landfill. Since our study focused on treatment and recycling, we
chose to limit our attention to the latter three directions: the