Rising gasoline prices have already led Jayme Webb, an office manager at a recycling center in Sioux City, Iowa, and her husband, Ken, who works at Wal-Mart, to cut back on spending.
A metal recycling center is a favorite target, he said.
These include scrap metal recycling centers, waste transfer stations and open pit mining operations.
With no employment options beyond her job sorting discarded paper and glass at a recycling center, she earns a sub-minimum wage salary of 10,000 pesos (US$4) a day.
Sprawling cottage industries, artisans' workshops, and recycling centers can't be neatly repacked into vertically stacked 225-square-foot boxes.
On the floor of the gallery displays606" misfortune god" statues from a religious statues recycling center in Hsinchu county of northern Taiwan.
Across from the recycling center, there's a grimy shop with two battered video game consoles.
