[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 23 (Friday, February 4, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E113]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        ACKNOWLEDGING THE INCREDIBLE WORK OF RECYCLE MY BATTERY

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                             HON. ANDY KIM

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, February 4, 2022

  Mr. KIM of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the 
incredible work being done by Recycle My Battery, a non-profit 
organization whose mission is to increase sustainable battery disposal 
helping preserve the environment and fight climate change. Since their 
founding, Recycle My Battery has collected and recycled more than 
150,000 used batteries as well as educated more than 1.5 million people 
on how they can properly recycle batteries, and why that process is so 
crucial to our communities and the long-term health of our planet.
  They have been able to do this by educating our community on the 
correct and sustainable ways to recycle and dispose of batteries as 
well as placing battery recycling bins in easy to access places like 
schools, libraries, and local businesses. Shyam Suhas Kandala, a 
twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, New Jersey leads the New Jersey 
chapter of Recycle My Battery. I applaud Shyam and the more than thirty 
other New Jersey youth who, even at such a young age, have identified 
an imperative issue and have answered the call to serve.
  I commend Shyam and the rest of Recycle My Battery on the work they 
are doing to better our planet's health, and I encourage more of us to 
get directly involved in trying to make the world a better, safer, 
cleaner place. With climate change being one of the most pressing 
challenges of our time I encourage each of us to follow their example 
in being better caretakers of our planet.

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