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"2.16.220 B Recycled Goods. Whenever practicable, all City Departments shall use recycled content products and recycled materials to meet their needs. This subsection is enacted to facilitate compliance with State requirements and to foster the development of new, improved markets for recycled products. A. Definitions. For purposes of this Chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them: (1) Practicable — Available within a reasonable time period; the recycled product shall be of equal or better quality or value at either no or minimal additional cost and subject to consideration of product durability as a criterion of the cost or value of the product. (2) Pre-Consumer — Materials or by-products generated after manufacturing of a product is completed, but before the product reaches the consumer. Examples of pre-consumer recovered materials include, but are not limited to, obsolete inventories of finished goods, rejected unused stock and paper wastes generated during printing, cutting and other conversion operations. (3) Past-Consumer Recycled Materials — A finished material or product that has served its intended use and would normally be disposed of as solid waste. Examples of post-consumer recovered materials include, but are not limited to, old newspaper, office paper, green waste (yard waste), steel, glass, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, oil, asphalt, concrete and tires. (4) Recycled Material — Waste material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream and can be utilized in place of raw or virgin material in a product. Recycled content materials may consist of material derived from post-consumer waste, manufacturing waste, industrial scrap, agricultural waste and other items, all of which can be used in the manufacture of new products. B. City Departments' procurement of recycled content products: (1) All Departments shall use recycled content products whenever practicable. Special emphasis shall be placed on the purchase of products manufactured with post-consumer recycled materials. (2) Whenever practicable, recycled materials shall be procured and used in City operations (e.g., recycled paper shall be used in copy machines and for printing purposes by Departments). (3) All Departments may require procurement of designated recycled content products above levels required by this subsection. 2 ]:\cc]erklordinances\Nos 2800-2899 in Word12829 Procurement of Recycled Content Products 4 5 16.doc