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Date: Fri, 16 May 97 09:33 WET DST From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: Mandated plastic recycled content
May 16, 1997
At the federal level, an annual process of designating products containing recovered materials includes plastics, but whether a mandated amount of content is included you can read for yourself. I don t think that there is such, but I haven t read the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines cover-to-cover. These guidelines only have to do with what the federal government is mandated to buy, and what those doing business (above a certain dollar threshold) with the federal government are required to buy.
You can access these guidelines online in the following process:
1. Through gopher go to: gopher.epa.gov
Through Mosaic, go to: http://www.epa.gov
2. Choose the EPA offices and regions choice
3. Choose Office of Solid Waste Emergency Response
4. Choose Office of Solid Waste
5. Choose Nonhazardous waste-RCRA Subtitle D
6. Finally, Choose Procurement/CPG
At the state level, you can find out if such mandates are in force or being considered through a state laws/regulations database of which there are many. The best known will be the Lexis/Nexis database of state laws; there are CD-ROMs from commercial firms like West s which also market such products.
I have not heard of mandated plastic recycled content, however, I have heard of mandated bans on plastics being landfilled or incinerated.
- Research Library for RCRA