Presidential Proclamation: America Recycles Day 2024

Original title: America Recycles Day, 2024

Record date · November 14, 2024

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What This Bill Does

President Biden issued a proclamation designating November 15, 2024, as America Recycles Day to highlight the importance of waste reduction and recycling. The document outlines federal initiatives, including investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, aimed at improving recycling infrastructure and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Why it matters

This proclamation highlights current federal environmental goals and strategies regarding waste management and plastic pollution that impact national recycling infrastructure and policy.

Who It Affects

Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

Manufacturers and corporations

The President calls on these entities to ensure products are reusable or recyclable and to limit non-recyclable packaging.

Directly affected

Federal agencies

Agencies are tasked with coordinating on organic material recycling and phasing out single-use plastics by 2035.

Key Facts

President Biden proclaimed November 15, 2024, as America Recycles Day.
The federal government has set a goal to end the use of single-use plastics in federal operations by 2035.
The administration aims to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The document references the National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.