America Recycles Day, 2006

Proclamation 8083 of November 14, 2006

America Recycles Day, 2006

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Good stewardship of the environment is a personal
responsibility and an important public value, and on
America Recycles Day, we highlight the many benefits of
recycling. By taking steps to reduce waste and re-use
materials, we can save precious natural resources,
enhance the beauty of our communities, and add to the
health and prosperity of our Nation.

Our citizens play an important role in protecting our
environment, and throughout our country, we are
recycling, composting, and helping turn materials that
would otherwise become waste into valuable resources.
Recycling helps conserve energy, prevent greenhouse gas
emissions and water pollutants, and decrease the need
for new landfills and incinerators.

Recognizing the importance of recycling, my
Administration is promoting cooperative efforts to
conserve and maintain our natural resources. The
Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging
businesses, industries, and communities to work
together to promote recycling through the Resource
Conservation Challenge (RCC). Partnerships between
government agencies, businesses, industries, and
private organizations help us to improve practices of
recycling, re-use, and waste reduction. In addition, my
Administration is working with businesses through the
Plug-In To eCycling Campaign to collect and re-use
computers, cell phones, and other electronics that
would otherwise become solid or hazardous waste. To
further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save
energy, the EPA is also partnering with manufacturers,
utility companies, and construction companies through
the Industrial Materials Recycling effort to increase
the safe re-use of industrial byproducts.

Americans are united in the belief that we have an
obligation to be good stewards of the environment, and
America Recycles Day is an opportunity to recommit
ourselves to wisely managing our natural resources. By
promoting responsibility and good citizenship, we can
build a brighter future for our children and our
Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim November 15, 2006, as
America Recycles Day. I call upon the people of the
United States to observe this day with appropriate
programs and activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand six, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.