America Recycles Day, 2024

Vol. 89

Tuesday,

No. 223

November 19, 2024

Part III

The President

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Proclamation 10858--America Recycles Day, 2024

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10858 of November 14, 2024

America Recycles Day, 2024

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

On America Recycles Day, we recognize the important
role recycling plays in helping secure a more
sustainable and prosperous future for generations to
come. We show our gratitude for all the people who work
hard to make sure we limit our waste and responsibly
steward our national resources. And we recommit to
building a Nation where we address the existential risk
of climate change and where everyone can enjoy the
benefits of a greener world.

Producing and processing the materials we use every day
cause more than a third of the world's greenhouse gas
emissions, contributing to the threat of climate
change. The health and well-being of too many people
suffer due to the damaging effects of pollution and the
toxins released when waste is landfilled, dumped, or
incinerated. That is why it is so important to reduce
waste and recycle. When we reduce waste, we conserve
the energy and natural resources needed to make these
materials. And when we recycle, we give these materials
another life--reducing the need for more production.
But recycling is still too difficult. Too many
Americans are unsure of where and which materials can
be recycled. And when materials do end up in recycling,
municipalities struggle to find markets for them.

To make recycling easier and more efficient, my
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law made the largest
investment in recycling in nearly three decades. It has
launched hundreds of new projects that are helping to
support manufacturing, improve waste management,
advance environmental justice, and educate people about
recycling. My Administration also released the first
comprehensive, Government-wide strategy to limit the
harms of plastic pollution at production, processing,
use, and disposal, and we announced a goal to end the
use of single-use plastics in the Federal Government by
2035. We also crafted the first-ever National Strategy
for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics
to coordinate agencies in recycling organic materials
like food waste while cutting costs for families. At
the same time, we have been pursuing the initiatives
outlined in our National Recycling Strategy to improve
our recycling and waste management systems, working to
find ways to better collect recyclable products, reach
markets for these materials, and develop new
technologies that will protect public health and the
environment. All this contributes to my
Administration's ambitious work to reach net-zero
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050--to that end, my
Inflation Reduction Act made the largest investment in
climate action in history.

We have made important progress toward building an
economy that values recycling, but there is still more
to do. Each of us can play a role in protecting our
natural environment and addressing the existential risk
of climate change by recycling--remember to dispose of
waste in the proper bins whenever possible, reuse
containers, compost food, and use products made with
recycled materials. I call on manufacturers and
corporations to ensure their products and materials are
reusable and recyclable when possible and limit the use
of non-recyclable packaging. On America Recycles Day,
may we recommit to building a better, healthier future
through recycling.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 15,
2024, as America Recycles Day. I call upon the people
of the United States of America to observe this day
with appropriate programs and activities, and I
encourage all Americans to continue their environmental
efforts by recycling throughout the year.

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