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You could get a butcher. They use butcher paper no trays.
I recycle all paper even mail.... cutting my postal code and address off.
Years ago, I lived in a small town and we had a local butcher that did indeed wrap the meat in paper. Now we have to buy our meat from big box stores and they all use trays. I don't know why they need to use trays that cannot be reused or recycled. I understand their need to display the meat on a tray covered with plastic wrap, so you can see what you are buying, but I think the trays need to be more environmentally friendly.
Recycling paper is great. Even better is shredding that paper for use as coop litter for the chickens. This winter I am using paper shreds instead of wood chips in the deep bedding of the coop. The idea is that if paper shreds works as well as wood chips, come spring when I clean out the coop deep bedding and throw it into the chicken run compost system, the paper shreds should break down into compost in no time outside compared to wood chips which do take much longer.