Pretty much all paper (well not all of it, but most of it) does indeed go into landfills and is not recycled. It used to be cheap to ship paper to china, etc for recycling, but it has for quite some time been cost-prohibitive to recycle paper for the vast majority of waste management companies/municipalities. It used to be pennies per ton, not it is so it just gets sent to the landfill.
Apparently (as of roughly mid-2018) China is not accepting any garbage/recycling imports.
Any waste management that sends material to be recycled domestically it is probably happening to some extent, but it is wasteful to recycle paper.
Sorry, the last line of the fist paragraph in my response: “not it is so it just gets sent to the landfill.”
Should be:
now it is dollars per ton so it just gets sent to the landfill.
“Pretty much all paper (well not all of it, but most of it) does indeed go into landfills and is not recycled.”
Mother nature recycles paper.