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Recycling holiday gift boxes this year will be a lot different than in previous years under China’s newly enforced import ban.

Paper that Des Moines residents placed in their recycling bins over the summer has been sent to landfill due to market volatility.

Starbucks sent 25 million old coffee cups to a paper mill, where they were processed and eventually incorporated into new cups.

The partnership aims to enable all components of used beverage cartons collected within the EU to be recycled by 2025.

Sources in China have suggested that the total ban on imports may not be imposed before 2021.

Day two of the conference featured a number of education sessions focused on the impact of China’s import ban and improving recycling.

When CVS introduced a digital receipt option in 2016, it saved more than 3 billion inches of paper.