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Proc 10496ProclamationBiden · DCeremonial

Proclamation 10496

America Recycles Day, 2022

This proclamation designates November 15, 2022 as America Recycles Day, encouraging Americans to recycle, reuse, and reduce waste while highlighting the Biden Administration's National Recycling Strategy and climate goals including net-zero emissions by 2050. It calls on individuals, manufacturers, and corporations to take voluntary action but imposes no binding requirements.

Federal Register Open PDF 87 FR 68885

Impact dates

  1. Proclamation of November 15, 2022 as America Recycles Day

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation of November 15, 2022 as America Recycles Day

Near term (90d)

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Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Document references pre-existing National Recycling Strategy and Inflation Reduction Act but creates no new obligations
  • Environmental justice framing without binding action may draw criticism as symbolic
  • Voluntary calls to action lack enforcement mechanism
Proclamation 10496: America Recycles Day, 2022 · Executive Orders