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It's not CD cases. It's cd discs.
I don't understand why English media all quotes from the wrong source.
Lucy: are you sure? Do you have a better source? All the Chinese-language sources I see mention (copy-and-pastes actually) that Shanghai wastes a lot of CDs that could be recycled, and that the building itself can be recycled, but don't actually state whether the building is made from recycled CDs or recycled CD cases or perhaps some other material.
I am not a CD recycling expert. But I'm pretty certain that CD can't be recycled into clear plastic, the way CD cases easily can.
It's pretty widely reported in the English language media (often alongside the same blah blah about CDs being waste and so forth) so it would be interesting if that was a mistake.