§ 11-09 — Minimum Recycled Material Content
New York City Administrative Code (current through L.L. 2026/147, enacted September 12, 2026, and amendments effective through October 10, 2026) · 43 RCNY § 11-09
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§ 11-09 Minimum Recycled Material Content.
(a) Any of the following products listed in the CPG, that can be procured at a reasonably competitive price, and for which the United States environmental protection agency has issued a recovered materials advisory notice, shall contain no less recovered material and postconsumer material than the minimum amount recommended in the most recent such notice: • reprographic paper, • tablet paper, • envelope paper, • file folder, • commercial/industrial sanitary tissue, • rock wool or fiberglass building insulation, • polyester carpet, • flowable fill, • steel shower or restroom divider/partition, • traffic cone, • plastic fencing, • plastic park bench, • hydraulic mulch, • garden or soaker hose, • plastic trash bag, • office recycling container, • office waste receptacle, • mat, • signage or pallet. (b) Any of the following products listed in the CPG, that can be procured at a reasonably competitive price, and for which the United States environmental protection agency has issued a recovered materials advisory notice, shall contain no less recovered material and postconsumer material than the minimum amount recommended in the most recent such notice: • carpet, • carpet adhesive, • carpet cushion, • cement and concrete, • commercial and industrial low voltage transformer, • foam-in-place insulation, • glass fiber reinforced insulation, • heavy duty/commercial use floor tile, • laminated paperboard, • latex paint, • loose fill and spray-on cellulose insulation, • modular threshold ramp, • nonpressure pipe, • perlite composition board insulation, • phenolic rigid foam insulation, • plastic non-woven batt insulation, • plastic or aluminum sign, • plastic or steel sign post / support, • plastic rigid foam, • polyisocyanurate / polyurethane-rigid foam insulation, • residential entry or patio door, • roof products, • roofing material, • steel restroom divider / partition, • structural fiberboard, • traffic barricade, • traffic control device (channelizer), • traffic control device (delineator), • traffic control device (flexible delineator). (c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section, any paper product listed in subdivisions (a) or (b) of this section that can be procured at a reasonably competitive price, and for which the United States environmental protection agency has issued a recovered materials advisory notice, shall contain no less than fifty percent agricultural wastes.
