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.