(a) If fitness and quality are equal, provide recycled-content paper products and recycled-content printing and writing paper that consist of at least 30 percent, by fiber weight, postconsumer fiber instead of nonrecycled products whenever recycled paper products and printing and writing paper are available at the same or lesser total cost than nonrecycled items or at a total cost of no more than 10 percent of the total cost for nonrecycled items.

(b) Provide paper products and printing and writing paper that meet Federal Trade Commission recyclability standard as defined in 16 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 260.12.

(c) Certify in writing, under penalty of perjury, the minimum percentage of postconsumer material in the paper products and printing and writing paper offered or sold to the city. This certification requirement may be waived if the percentage of postconsumer material in the paper products, printing and writing paper, or both can be verified by a product label, catalog, invoice, or a manufacturer or vendor internet website.

(d) Certify in writing, on invoices or receipts provided, that the paper products and printing and writing paper offered or sold to the city are eligible to be labeled with an unqualified recyclable label as defined in 16 CFR Section 260.12 (2013).

(e) Provide records to the city’s recovered organic waste product procurement recordkeeping staff, in accordance with the city’s recycled-content paper procurement policy(ies) of all paper products and printing and writing paper purchases within 30 days of the purchase (both recycled content and nonrecycled content, if any is purchased) made by any division or department or employee of the city. Records shall include a copy (electronic or paper) of the invoice or other documentation of purchase, written certifications as required in subsections (2)(c) and (d) of this section for recycled content purchases, purchaser name, quantity purchased, date purchased, and recycled content (including products that contain none), and if nonrecycled content paper products or printing and writing papers are provided, include a description of why recycled-content paper products or printing and writing papers were not provided.

(a) “Paper products” include, but are not limited to, paper janitorial supplies, cartons, wrapping, packaging, file folders, hanging files, corrugated boxes, tissue, and toweling, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(51).

(b) “Printing and writing papers” include, but are not limited to, copy, xerographic, watermark, cotton fiber, offset, forms, computer printout paper, white wove envelopes, manila envelopes, book paper, notepads, writing tablets, newsprint, and other uncoated writing papers, posters, index cards, calendars, brochures, reports, magazines, and publications, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(54).

(c) “Recovered organic waste products” means products made from California, landfill-diverted recovered organic waste processed in a permitted or otherwise authorized facility, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(60).

(d) “Recycled-content paper” means paper products and printing and writing paper that consist of at least 30 percent, by fiber weight, postconsumer fiber, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(61). (Ord. 716 § 3, 2021).