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- Recommends that public and private agencies and organizations establish programs to favor purchases of recycled products and engage in source reduction.
- Legislative, executive and administrative commitment to buying recycled products
- Using standard specifications definitions and minimum content standards
- Eliminating prohibitions or limitations against recycled products and including recovered material content in bid specifications.
- Requiring the highest percentage recycled content determined to be technical feasible and available in the marketplace in all purchasing specifications. -
- Encourages swift action to conduct the necessary research to address these questions, to analyze their impacts, and to apply the necessary modifications to the proposed standard so that they may be adopted and implemented.
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- Federal, state, and local governments should immediately institute recycled products procurement standards that specify minimum post-consumer recycled content and appropriate price preferences for a broad range of products.
