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Glenbard Township High School District 87
Policy 4:70-R1
Operational Services
Administrative Procedure – Resource Conservation
I. Definitions:
A. “De-inked stock” means paper that has been processed to remove inks, clays, coatings, binders, and other contaminants.
B. “High grade printing and writing papers” include offset-printing paper, duplicator paper, writing paper (stationery), tablet paper, office paper, note pads, xerographic paper, envelopes, form bond, including computer paper and carbonless forms, book papers, bond papers, ledger paper, book stock, and cotton fiber papers.
C. “Paper and paper products” means high grade printing and writing papers, tissue products, wsprint, unbleached packaging, and recycled paperboard.
D. “Postconsumer material” means only those products generated by a business or consumer which have served their intended end uses, and which have been separated or diverted from solid waste; wastes generated during the production of an end product are excluded. “Postconsumer material” includes:
1. Paper, paperboard, and fibrous waste from retail stores, office buildings, homes and so forth, after the waste has passed through its end usage as a consumer item, including used corrugated boxes, old newspapers, mixed-waste paper, tabulating cards, and used cordage; and
2. All paper, paperboard, and fibrous wastes that are diverted or separated from the municipal waste stream.
E. “Recovered paper material” means paper waste generated after the completion of the papermaking process, such as postconsumer material, envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, printing waste, cutting and other converting waste, butt rolls, and mill wrappers, obsolete inventories, and rejected unused stock. “Recovered paper material”, however, does not include fibrous waste generated during the manufacturing process such as fibers recovered from waste water or trimmings of paper machine rolls (mill broke), or fibrous by-products of harvesting, extraction or woodcutting processes, or forest residues such as bark. “Recovered paper material” includes:
1. Postconsumer material;
2. Dry paper and paperboard waste generated after completion of the papermaking process (that is, those manufacturing operations up to and including the cutting and trimming of the paper machine reel into smaller rolls or rough sheets), including envelope cuttings, bindery trimmings, and other paper and paperboard waste resulting from printing, cutting, forming and other converting operations, or from bag, box, and carton manufacturing, and butt rolls, mill wrappers, and rejected unused stock; and
3. Finished paper and paperboard from obsolete inventories of paper and paperboard manufacturers, merchants, wholesalers, dealers, printers, converters, or others.
F. “Recycled paperboard” includes paperboard products, folding cartons and pad backings.
G. “Tissue products” include toilet tissue, paper towels, paper napkins, facial tissue, paper doilies, industrial wipers, paper bags, and brown papers. These products shall also be unscented and shall not be colored.
H. “Unbleached packaging” includes corrugated and fiber storage boxes.
II. Whenever economically and practically feasible, recycled paper and paper products shall be purchased according to 50% of the District’s total dollar value of paper and paper products. Paper and paper products purchased from private sector vendors pursuant to printing contracts are exempted from this requirement.
III. Wherever economically and practically feasible, recycled paper and paper products shall contain post consumer or recovered paper materials as follows:
A. Recycled high-grade printing and writing paper shall contain at least 50% recovered paper material consisting of 50% de-inked stock or post consumer material.
B. Recycled tissue products shall contain at least 45% post consumer material.
C. Recycled newsprint shall contain at least 80% post consumer material.
D. Recycled unbleached packaging shall contain at least 55% post consumer material.
E. Recycled paperboard shall contain at least 95% post consumer material. These regulations do not apply to art materials, nor to any newspapers, magazines, textbooks, library books or other copyrighted publications which are purchased or used by the Board of Education or any school or attendance center within the District, or which are sold in any school supply store operated by or within any such school or attendance center. All paper purchased for publishing student newspapers must be recycled newsprint.
LEGAL REF.: 105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c.
DATED: March 1999
REVISED: January 26, 2004
REVIEWED: March 13, 2006
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