By Tik Root, Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images, November 15, 2021
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized America’s first “national recycling strategy,” which aims to support the agency’s goal of achieving a 50 percent recycling rate by the end of the decade.
“Our nation’s recycling system is in need of critical improvements to better serve the American people,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Together with the historic investments in recycling from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal, the strategy will help transform recycling and solid waste management across the country while creating jobs and bolstering our economy.”
The move comes on National Recycling Day, and the same day President Biden is signing an infrastructure bill that included $350 million for solid waste and recycling grants. It also comes amid growing concerns about global plastics pollution.
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