N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 2878-b: Source separation of wastes

§ 2878-b. Source separation of wastes. 1. No later than September

first, nineteen hundred eighty-nine each public authority, corporation

or commission shall devise and institute a program to source separate

waste paper generated within its facilities.

Such program shall include marketing arrangements and appropriate

procedures to ensure the recovery of discarded paper in a

noncontaminated condition. This program may be phased in, utilizing

those office facilities most conducive to operation of a source

separation program, but shall be fully implemented by July first,

nineteen hundred ninety.

2. No later than July first, nineteen hundred ninety, each public

authority, corporation or commission shall devise and institute a

program to source separate all other waste generated within its

facilities that is not covered by this section. Such program shall

include marketing arrangements and appropriate procedures to ensure the

recovery of waste for which the full avoided costs of proper collection,

transportation and disposal of source separated materials are equal to

or greater than the cost of collection, transportation and sale of said

material less the amount received from the sale of said material. This

program may be phased in, utilizing those office facilities most

conducive to operation of a source separation program but shall be fully

implemented by July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one.

3. A public authority, corporation or commission occupying facilities

made available or provided by the office of general services may comply

with the provisions of this section by participating in a program

conducted by the office of general services pursuant to subdivisions

four and five of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state finance

law.