N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2878-a: Purchasing of products

§ 2878-a. Purchasing of products. 1. All products purchased shall be

recycled products, which meet contract specifications, unless the only

available product does not contain recycled content, and provided that

the cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of ten

percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled

product or, if at least fifty percent of the secondary materials

utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from the waste

stream in New York state, the cost of the recycled product does not

exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the cost of a comparable

product that is not a recycled product. For the purpose of this section

and until July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product"

shall mean any product which has been manufactured from secondary

materials, as defined in subdivision one of section two hundred

sixty-one of the economic development law, and meets secondary material

content requirements adopted by the office of general services under

subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state

finance law for products available to the public authority under state

contract or, if no such contract for such product is available to the

public authority, any product which meets the secondary material content

requirements adopted by the public authority with respect to a specific

commodity procurement by the public authority. On and after July first,

nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean, for the

purposes of this section, any product which has been manufactured from

secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of section two

hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which meets the

requirements of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the environmental

conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

2. Whenever a public authority, corporation or commission shall

purchase or cause the purchase of printing on recycled paper, it shall

require the printed material to contain the official state recycling

emblem established pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the

environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant

thereto if such paper has been approved by the department of

environmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such

statute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved,

require the printed material to include a printed statement which

indicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled

material content of such paper.