Joe Biden Has a Plan to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics in Federal Buildings [Video]

In July, President Joe Biden announced a wide-ranging commitment to phasing out single-use plastic products in the federal government, pledging to move away from single-use plastic products across all U.S. federal agencies and operations by 2035 while also working to end the use of single-use plastics in government-related food service events and operations by 2027. 

“President Biden is committed to taking ambitious actions throughout the lifecycle of plastic to end plastic pollution and is working with the global community to do the same,” the White House wrote in a fact sheet. The administration explained that it will attempt to meet these goals by “selecting reusable, compostable, and highly recyclable products” instead of single-use plastics. It also said that it will try to decrease the amount of “pollution pathways” — preventing the use of materials that may end up as waste or pollution — by adding water refill stations, for example, to cut down on the use of plastic bottles. 

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