(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Recycled paper" means a paper product with not less than fifty percent (50%) of its total weight consisting of secondary and postconsumer waste and with not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of its total weight consisting of postconsumer waste.
(2) "Postconsumer waste" means a finished material, including paper, paperboard and other fibrous wastes generated by a household, business or other consumer, which would normally be disposed of as solid waste having completed its life cycle as a consumer item or having served its intended end use.
(3) "Secondary waste" means fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process which has converted a virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value, and including postconsumer waste and other material generated after completion of the papermaking process such as envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, printing waste, cutting and other converting waste, butt rolls and mill wrappings, but not including mill broke, wood slabs, chips, sawdust or other wood residue from the manufacturing process. "Secondary waste" also includes finished paper and paperboard from obsolete inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers, wholesalers, dealers, merchants, printers and convertors. (Ord. 91-87. Passed 10-7-91.)
(4) "Reasonably" competitive means a comparable recycled product with a cost premium of no greater than five percent (5%) over the lowest bid of price quoted by suppliers offering nonrecycled paper products.
(b) When purchasing or otherwise obtaining paper products, the City shall, whenever the price is reasonably competitive and the quality is that intended, purchase the recycled paper. (Ord. 91-87. Passed 10-7-91.)
(c) Information on the recycled content shall be requested on all bids or quotes for paper products issued by the City and on other bids or quotes for products which could have recycled contents such as oil, plastic products, compost materials, aggregate, solvents and rubber products. (Ord. 89-5. Passed 6-19-89.)