US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    * §  6-122.  Purchase  of  recycled paper products. a. When purchasing
  paper products made  with  and  without  significant  recycled  content,
  recovered from materials otherwise destined for disposal, the department
  of  citywide  administrative  services  shall,  wherever  the  price  is
  reasonably  competitive  and  the  quality  adequate  for  the   purpose
  intended, purchase the recycled product. For the purpose of this section
  the  term "recycled paper" shall mean any paper products which have been
  manufactured from materials otherwise  destined  for  the  waste  stream
  including,  but  not  limited to, old newspapers, magazines, paperboard,
  boxes, tabulating cards, mixed waste, used  fibrous  materials  such  as
  rags   and   overstock   or   obsolete  inventories  from  distributors,
  wholesalers, printers and  other  companies  as  defined  in  rules  and
  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner  provided  that the term
  "recycled  paper"  does  not  include  those  materials  and  byproducts
  generated  from,  and  commonly  reused within an original manufacturing
  process. "Reasonably  competitive"  shall  mean  a  comparable  recycled
  product with a cost premium of no greater than ten percent.
    b. The department of citywide administrative services shall review its
  own  paper  product procurement specifications and consider those of the
  State of New York in  order  to  establish  realistic  recycled  content
  standards  and  to  eliminate, wherever feasible, discrimination against
  the procurement of products manufactured with recovered  materials.  The
  department  of  general services shall submit a report on recycled paper
  procurement activities to the mayor and the city council eighteen months
  after the effective date of this section.
    * Repealed January 1, 2007