Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 13/11/1997

Comprehensive Guideline for Procurement of Products Containing Recovered Materials

The Environmental Protection Agency today is issuing an amendment to the May 1, 1995 Comprehensive Procurement Guideline (CPG). EPA is designating 12 new items that are or can be made with recovered materials. These items are shower and restroom dividers/partitions; consolidated and reprocessed latex paint for specified uses; parking stops; channelizers; delineators; flexible delineators; plastic fencing for specified uses; garden and soaker hoses; lawn and garden edging; printer ribbons; plastic envelopes; and pallets. In addition, this action clarifies EPA's previous designation of floor tiles, structural fiberboard, and laminated paperboard as items that can be made with recovered materials. The CPG implements section 6002 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which requires EPA to designate items that are or can be produced with recovered materials and to recommend practices for the procurement of designated items by procuring agencies. Once EPA designates an item, RCRA requires any procuring agency using appropriated Federal funds to procure that item to purchase it with the highest percentage of recovered materials practicable. Today's action will foster marke