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Let's see how the US handles its own trash now, since China has stopped importing it.

Well, there was a New York Times article a few weeks ago about how the cardboard that used to be shipped to China for recycling is now being recycled domestically into Amazon boxes, and paper mills in Wisconsin are reopening, being retrofitted to handle recycled cardboard, and bringing workers back to run them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/business/cardboard.html

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