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Relabel activities which both treat and produce recyclable products #155

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It seems like there is another type of allocation in the cut-off model that we hadn't considered before: when an activity has a reference product that is recyclable and has a negative amount, and a byproduct that is also recyclable. For example, the Swiss activity treatment of waste paper, unsorted, sorting has a reference product production of -1.025 waste paper, unsorted. However, the reference model result produces 1 kg of waste paper, sorted, and moves the unsorted paper to a positive input. It also moves all waste byproducts to negative inputs.

This procedure is very similar to the procedure for recycling allocation, except that the documentation for recycling_allocation explicitly states that:

Note that recycling allocation is not applied to `recyclable` byproducts, 
as the cutoff system model breaks the chain between production and 
consumption of these types of materials.

It looks like our criteria for recycling allocation need to be broadened. The cutoff here occurs at waste paper, unsorted, Recycled Content cut-off which produces waste paper, unsorted, which is correct, but the sorting dataset still needs to be "allocated".

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