Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
PBA Public Authorities |
Article 9. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Title 4. CONTRACTS OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES |
Section 2878-B. Source separation of wastes
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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.