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Purchasing Recycled Content Products

The Procurement Division has established contracts (link below) that offer recycled content products to assist agencies in meeting their "Buy Recycle" minimum goals of 50% of the dollars they spend on products in 11 product categories.

 

The State Agency Buy Recycled Campaign (SABRC, PCC 12200-12217) is a joint effort between the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) and the Department of General Services (DGS) to implement State law requiring State agencies and the Legislature to purchase products with recycled content.  It complements the efforts of the Integrated Waste Management Act (AB 939, Sher, Chapter 1095, Statutes of 1989), which was enacted to reduce the amount of waste going to California's landfills.  Annually, State agencies are required to report their purchases of both virgin and recycled products in the categories listed below: 

 

Reportable Products
  • Paper Products
  • Printing and Writing Paper
  • Compost, Co-Compost, and Mulch
  • Glass
  • Oil
  • Paint
  • Tires
  • Tire-derived products
  • Metal
  • Plastic Products
  • Antifreeze

 

SB 1106, the bill specifies that if two products are of equal fitness and quality, and the price of the recycled content product is equal to or less than that of a nonrecycled content product, then the state shall purchase the recycled content product (PCC 12201 (c)).  Also, state agencies and DGS may establish "recycled product-only bids, cooperative purchasing arrangements, or other mechanisms" to meet SABRC requirements (PCC 12217 (e)).

Further information about the SABRC program is available on the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) website at http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BuyRecycled/StateAgency/.

For questions about this webpage, please contact (916) 375-4336 or e-mail at DGSPDEPPEngineer@dgs.ca.gov.

 

 
Updated : 9/6/2007