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. For the purpose of this article, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management
Board, as defined pursuant to Section 40110 of the Public Resources
Code.
(b) "Business" includes bidders, contractors, and other interested
parties that provide services to, or sell products to, the state.
(c) "Department" means the Department of General Services.
(d) "Director" means the Director of General Services.
(e) "Postconsumer material" means a finished material that would
have been disposed of as a solid waste, having completed its life
cycle as a consumer item, and does not include manufacturing wastes.
(f) "Product categories" include paper products, printing, and
writing papers, compost, cocompost, or mulch, glass, oil, plastic,
paint, tires, tire-derived products, antifreeze, and metal.
(g) "Purchase" means any contractual agreement that state agencies
use to obtain goods or materials.
(h) "Recycled products" mean goods or materials that meet the
requirements identified in Section 12209, including any good or
material that has been reused or refurbished without substantial
alteration of its original form.
(i) "Reportable purchase" means the purchase of any goods or
materials, with recycled content or not, that may be reported or
categorized or classified within one of the product categories
identified in Section 12207.
(j) "Reportable recycled product purchase" means the purchase of
any goods or materials that meet the requirements identified in
Section 12209, that may be reported or categorized or classified
within one of the product categories identified in Section 12207,
including any good or material that has been reused or refurbished
without substantial alteration of its original form.
(k) "SABRC" means the State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign.
(l) "Secondary material" means fragments of finished products or
finished products of a manufacturing process, that has converted a
resource into a commodity of real economic value, but does not
include excess virgin resources of the manufacturing process, such as
fibers recovered from wastewater, trimmings of paper machine rolls,
mill broke, plastic, or metal trimmings, or shavings, or other
residue from a manufacturing process. Secondary material does not
include postconsumer material, so that the secondary material plus
the postconsumer material plus the virgin material adds up to 100
percent of the product.
(m) "State agency" means each entity identified in Section 11000
of the Government Code, and includes the California State University.