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Buy Recycled

Read any good labels lately?  Did you know the “three-chasing-arrows” symbol doesn’t necessarily mean a product is made with recycled content or can be recycled in your community? It may just be a reminder for you to recycle. Read the label carefully for specific information on recycled content.

Here are some terms you need to know:

  • Recyclable products -- Items that can be collected and remanufactured into new products after they've been used. Recyclable does not equal recycled. These products do not necessarily contain recycled materials and only benefit the environment if people recycle them after use. Check with your local recycling program to determine which items are recyclable in your community.
  • Recycled-content products -- Made from materials that would otherwise have been discarded. The products may include pre-consumer content, material such as factory trimmings, damaged or obsolete products and overruns generated by manufacturers, or postconsumer content, material that has served its intended purpose and is collected in recycling programs (glass, aluminum, plastic, cardboard, etc.)

Look for products with the highest percentage of postconsumer recycled content. When you buy these products, you help build a demand for material collected in community recycling programs.


Recycled content products

Recycled content products are not hard to find.  No matter where you live, you probably have access to recycled content products.  Some purchases will always have a significant amount of recycled content: steel, including cars, food cans, bicycles and appliances; glass bottles and jars; as well as most paper products. 

Your support for recycling will pay even higher dividends if you purchase out-of-the-ordinary recycled content items like plastic lumber, floor tiles, carpet, clothing, roofing materials, reusable shopping bags, furniture, building insulation and many other products.  Search the Internet using terms like “green products” or “recycled content products.” Encourage retailers and suppliers to carry more recycled-content products and to indicate in their catalogs which products contain recycled content.

America Recycles Day

America Recycles Day is Nov. 15. Americans are challenged to make a pledge to increase their purchases of recycled-content goods and be eligible to win a prize. For more information, visit http://www.americarecyclesday.org/  


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Recycled material content products - statutes and regulations

Kentucky Revised Statutes
TITLE VI - FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
KRS Chapter 045A00
Kentucky Model Procurement Code

 

  • .500   Legislative findings.

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  • .505   Definitions.

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  • .510   Nonrecyclable materials may be purchased, when.

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  • .515   Discrimination against purchase of recycled materials prohibited.

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  • .520   Requirement of purchase of materials with minimum recycled content.

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  • .523   Report on procurement of products made from recovered materials.

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  • .525   Recycled material content provisions to be applied to contractors with a state agency.

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  • .530   Recycled material content provisions to be applied to projects financed by bonds issued by state agency.

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  • .535   Vendors to be informed.

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  • .540   Purchase of materials with minimum recycled material content through central stores.

    • Kentucky Administrative Regulations TITLE 200
    FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION CABINET

  •  .330 Purchase of goods, supplies, equipment, materials and printing with minimum recycled content

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