    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 46 (Monday, November 20, 2006)]
    [Pages 2053-2054]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 8083--America Recycles Day, 2006

     November 14, 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.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 16,
    2006]

    Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press
    Secretary on November 15, and it was published in the Federal Register
    on November 17.

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