Section 32371 Of Article 8. Recycling Paper From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 19. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 8.
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. The following definitions govern the interpretation of this
article:
(a) "Educational agency" means any school district, county office
of education, or campus of the California State University and
Colleges.
(b) "Paper recycling program" means, (1) the provision of
specially marked containers which are intended to receive either all
grades or only some grades of postconsumer wastepaper but which are
not intended to receive other forms of postconsumer waste, (2)
publicity directed at all persons who frequent buildings with the
containers encouraging those persons to deposit wastepaper in the
containers, and (3) the collection of all paper deposited in the
containers for the purpose of recycling.
(c) "Postconsumer waste" means a finished material which would
normally be disposed of as solid waste, having completed its life
cycle as a consumer item.
(d) "Recycled paper" means all paper and woodpulp products with
not less than 50 percent of its total weight consisting of secondary
and postconsumer waste and with not less than 10 percent of its total
weight consisting of postconsumer waste.
(e) "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 includes
postconsumer waste, but does not include mill broke, wood slabs,
chips, sawdust, or other wood residue from a manufacturing process.