King County Environmental Purchasing Program

1996 Annual Report

Published: September, 1996.

 

The 2002 report is now available

Reports for 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 are also available.

• I. King County Recycled Product Procurement
  • The Policy
  • The Program
  • Implementation
  • The Challenges
  • The Opportunities
• II. Purchases
  • Paper Products
  • Non-Paper Products
• III. Ongoing Program Elements
  • Agency Liaison Network
  • Internet Information Project
  • Public Involvement
  • Publicity
  • King County Policy Revision
  • Model Procurement Policy
  • Related King County programs
  • Public Involvement
• Appendix
  • Procurement Initiatives of Agencies

I. KING COUNTY RECYCLED PRODUCT PROCUREMENT

The King County Recycled Product Procurement Policy requires County agencies to purchase products manufactured with recycled materials "wherever practicable" (KCC 10.16, Executive Policy CON 7-1-2(AEP)). This annual report summarizes the progress made by the King County Recycled Product Procurement Program in implementation of this policy through June 30, 1996

The Policy

This policy reflects a long-term commitment on the part of King County to support recycling markets by using County purchasing-power. The accomplishments of County agencies in development and implementation of this policy have established King County as a national leader in recycled product procurement. The County is maintaining this position of leadership through the efforts and accomplishments of County employees who are actively pursuing ways to use recycled materials in new applications and working with vendors to refine the manufacture of viable and economical products using recycled materials. This report describes the progress that King County agencies have made toward the ambitious goals of the policy.

The policy was revised and simplified in 1995 in response to enhancements in the guidelines of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the experience of five years of implementation by County agencies. These revisions acknowledged a broader group of "environmentally preferable" products, streamlined the policy, and clarified accountabilities so that further revisions to EPA guidance can be smoothly accommodated and implementation efforts easily enhanced.

The Program

The Recycled Product Procurement Program aims to bring about fundamental change in the procurement priorities of the 10,000-plus employees of the County and its contractors. With the full participation of the people in the agencies who specify products, the County can attain its goal of buying recycled products "wherever practicable." The program supports the efforts of these people by providing information and technical assistance to help them identify economical and effective recycled products and by creating and maintaining contracts for their purchase. It helps agencies understand policy requirements and communicates specifications, contracts, and other practical information between County agencies, vendors, users, and other jurisdictions.

King County's collaborative approach, which provides information and guidance to County employees and relies on their expertise to evaluate procurement opportunities and revise procedures, is gradually changing the way that agencies view these opportunities. They are placing more emphasis on developing ways to increase the use of recycled and other environmentally preferable products especially where these will reduce costs while still meeting rigorous performance standards.

Implementation

The King County Recycled Product Procurement Policy calls upon each County agency to revise contracting and procurement procedures and specifications to increase the purchase of recycled products. In the implementation of this policy, each agency:

• evaluates recycled and environmentally preferable products to determine the extent to which they may be effectively used by the agency and its contractors;
• purchases recycled and environmentally preferable products whenever practicable;
• ensures that contracts issued by the agency require recycled and environmentally preferable material content whenever practicable and that contractors provide certification of this content and report amounts purchased; and
• reports the progress of policy implementation, including evaluation results and volumes purchased by the agency and its contractors.

The Procurement Services Division administers the Recycled Product Procurement Program to facilitate the implementation of this policy by agencies. The program:

• fulfills the reporting and liaison requirements of Washington State RCW 43.19A, which requires recycled product procurement and reporting by local governments;
• coordinates product evaluations by agencies, disseminates evaluation results, and assists agencies in the development of specifications and contracts;
• assembles information about recycled and environmentally preferable products, applications, and vendors and communicates it to agencies;
• reviews procurement opportunities and policy requirements with agencies and monitors the status of policy implementation efforts;
• creates educational opportunities to bring product information to agency users;
• provides technical support to the outreach programs of the Solid Waste Division, the Marketing Commission, the Clean Washington Center, and others, to encourage the adoption of recycled product procurement policies by suburban cities in King County;
• transmits the annual report of the King County Recycled Product Procurement Program to suburban cities and others to enhance communication between users of recycled products in County agencies and their counterparts in other jurisdictions; and
• coordinates development and implementation of procurement guidelines, preferential procurement procedures and minimum content standards, and recommends revisions of policy.

The Challenges

County personnel face many impediments to the purchase of recycled products:

• the challenge of policy implementation nearly doubled in 1996, as the County re-organized to absorb the transit and wastewater responsibilities of the organization formerly known as METRO, requiring new communication channels to be established and old ones to be renewed;
• project managers, designers, and contractors are not familiar with the use of recycled products and are uncertain of the ways in which they might be effectively specified and applied as substitutes for familiar products;
• performance history is often unavailable for new recycled product applications;
• developers of recycled products are often in the early stages of identifying the needs of their potential customers and establishing the production, marketing, and distribution capacity to meet them;
• construction products must meet rigorous standards maintained by a variety of governmental regulators, the modification of these standards is a painstaking and expensive process; and
• after a product is created and specifications are developed, the use of the product must be economically responsible, cost must be competitive, and contractors must have developed the processes and skills needed for its economical use.

The Opportunities

The Program and County agencies are addressing these challenges by:

• establishing new liaisons between all re-organized agencies and the Recycled Product Procurement program to facilitate policy implementation,
• actively seeking new applications for recycled products and encouraging contractors to use products containing recycled material whenever possible;
• evaluating recycled product performance in new applications through testing and pilot programs and sharing the results with other jurisdictions and users;
• assembling specific application information and performance data from product users and manufacturers and disseminating this to potential users in the County;
• developing specifications for the procurement of recycled products when their use is found to be practicable;
• requiring that recycled products be specified in contracts whenever evaluation establishes that product performance and costs are acceptable; and
• helping potential suppliers understand King County procurement processes.

II. Purchases

Paper Products

Recycled paper is specified for purchase in term-supply contracts. These centrally administered contracts enable agencies to purchase hundreds of paper products at low and consistent prices and specify recycled paper whenever practicable. Non-recycled paper is purchased only if recycled paper is not available within the 15% price-preference guidelines of the policy. The recycled product procurement program is monitoring purchases to ensure that any negative effects of the elimination of the Purchasing Stores section and the reconfiguration of office supply contracts are addressed.

King County purchases of paper fall into three general categories:

• Photocopy and Bond Paper supplied to County agencies meet or exceed King County minimum recycled content standards in over 99% of purchases. Further, the predominant paper types contain 20%, 25% and 35% post-consumer paper material, exceeding the 10% standard of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the 20% standard established by President Clinton's 1993 Executive Order to Federal Agencies.

• Printing by the County Printshop or under contracts administered through the Procurement Services Division uses recycled paper whenever it is available at prices within policy guidelines. During 1995/96, recycled paper purchases rose above 90%.

• Other Paper Products purchased, include envelopes, boxes, notepads, paper towels and other tissue products. During 1995/96, 91% of all paper products purchased were recycled.

Purchase Summary - Paper

Recycled paper purchases grew from 8% at the start of policy implementation to 93% in 1995-96, above the 60% goal established by policy. King County agencies purchased almost One Million Dollars of recycled paper goods in 1995/96. Future levels will fluctuate with variation in product availability and bid results, but will remain above policy goals.

The table below shows the dollar value and percentage of total recycled paper purchases for 1995/96 by category.

Non-Paper Products

Non-paper recycled-content products suffer two notable disadvantages that make their purchase less straightforward than paper products. These products are often not well-established in the marketplace and they are often purchased through complex engineering and construction contracts. Purchases depend on the specific materials requirements of the project, acceptance by State, Federal, and other external standards organizations, product price and availability, the ability of contractors to deliver the expertise required to install or use specific products, and other factors.

In 1995/96 County agencies purchased non-paper recycled products valued at over $780,000, with $549,000 obtained through term supply and one-time purchase contracts, and over $232,500 through construction contracts.

• Aggregate Made With Recycled Concrete is used for temporary road surface by the Solid Waste Division and has been used successfully in past County projects as backfill material, as permitted by prevailing engineering standards. Cedar Hills landfill, saved over $12,000 during 1995/96 by using this material in place of increasingly scarce and expensive native rock aggregate. Expenditures by the Division for aggregate in 1995/96 totaled $79,000. The Regional Justice Center contract required concrete demolition debris to be recycled on-site. By processing and using 28,640 tons of concrete and 3,200 tons of asphalt at the job-site, the project saved $159,200 in disposal costs.

• Aggregate Composed of 100% Recycled Glass has been used for pipe-bedding and other applications in place of virgin aggregate. These applications have often resulted in cost-savings, but are still considered trial uses since the availability and quality of glass cullet varies. In 1995, the Roads Division of the Transportation Department used 425 cubic yards of mixed-color glass cullet as backfill for a retaining wall on a County road project at a cost of $6 per cubic yard. This was roughly half the cost of the usual gravel aggregate, saving over $2500. The project was made possible by the King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials, which funded the research and documentation of this project.

• Antifreeze manufactured with re-refined ethylene glycol has been purchased, under a contract maintained by Procurement Services Division, since 1991. Motor Pool, Airport, Solid Waste Operations, and Equipment Rental and Repair used nearly 1700 gallons of re-refined antifreeze this year and returned spent antifreeze to the supplier for "closed-loop" re-refining into new antifreeze. This contract also requires that the material be re-refined in a manner that meets all regulatory requirements, thereby avoiding the discharge of a toxic material and ensuring compliance with State and Federal requirements.

• Asphalt can be economically and effectively recycled and used for many applications. Roads Division added recycled asphalt to its term-supply contract for construction commodities and purchased 700 tons for $4600 for use as a base course material in their internal recycling yard. The Regional Justice Center project used 3,200 tons of asphalt that was reclaimed from material removed during demolition.

• Compost was specified by the West Point waste-water treatment project, which used 40,000 cubic yards of topsoil amended with biosolids compost. The Regional Justice Center project will use compost-amended topsoil later this year. Compost-amended topsoil is specified by Roads Maintenance Section whenever it purchases organically amended topsoil and such purchases in 1995-96 totaled nearly $10,000. The Roads Engineering Section is studying ways to revise specifications included in its General Special Provisions to encourage or require compost-amended topsoil in Roads projects completed under contract with private road contractors.

• Motor oil manufactured with re-refined base-stock has been used in County vehicles operated by Motor Pool, Equipment Shop (ER&R), Stadium Administration, Airport Division and Solid Waste Operations since 1992. These agencies purchased 13,280 gallons of re-refined oil at a cost of over $35,000 in 1995-96. To promote the use of this oil, a bumper sticker proclaiming "Follow my lead, use re-refined oil" is displayed on County vehicles. Planning is underway to undertake testing and evaluation of the practicability of re-refined oil for use in the bus fleet now operated by the Transportation Department. Unavailable from major oil companies in earlier years, re-refined oil is now available under a County supply contract with the Unocal Corporation.

• Paint has been evaluated by County agencies in the past, but none have been found to be of practicable quality, cost and available in suitable quantities for County applications. County agencies will continue to evaluate, as new products come on the market. In 1996, a new coatings product made with recycled glass will be evaluated by the Parks Capital Projects section of the Department of Construction and Facilities Management.

• Plastic Products:
  • Can-liners
    Over 4,000 cases of can liners, manufactured with 30% high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and 25% low-density polyethylene (LDPE) post-consumer recycled plastic bags were purchased in 1995/96 for almost $75,000. ER&R, Fleet Administration purchased litter bags manufactured with a minimum of 10% post-consumer plastic. In 1995/96 they purchased almost 50,000 bags at a cost of $11,250. For the third consecutive year, the E-911 program of the Department of Information and Administrative Services purchased 200 cases of printed educational litter bags manufactured with 25% recycled content and bearing the chasing arrows.
  • Plastic Lumber - Fleet Applications
    The ER&R section of the Fleet Administration Division now specifies recycled plastic lumber for truck-bed sideboards for its dump-trucks. When they required new trucks to be outfitted with recycled plastic, the truck-equipment vendor adopted this material as a standard option because of its superior performance and lower life-cycle cost. The division is retrofitting all of its virgin-lumber truck equipment with material supplied by this vendor, with expenditures for over 40 sideboards totaling nearly $6000 for this application. Though the material is marginally more expensive than virgin lumber, the life cycle is much longer: none of the plastic lumber has required replacement to date.
  • Plastic Lumber - Parks Applications
    Parks Division purchases plastic lumber for bench-slat replacement, bollards, and special utility applications on an as needed basis. For many of these applications, plastic lumber is preferred for its resistance to decay, graffiti and chemical damage. This material creates significant cost-savings when used as a substitute for chemically treated lumber in applications involving contact with soil and water and other harsh environments. Parks Division recently consulted with the Parks Department of the City of Seattle to design and build a kiosk for Luther Burbank Park using a plastic and wood composite material.
  • Plastic Lumber - Roads Applications
    Roads Maintenance Division is continuing development and testing of plastic lumber bollards. The Bridge Unit of the Roads Division is testing $7,000 worth of plastic lumber for use in bridge abutments. The vendor has worked with County engineers to reinforce and modify the product to meet performance requirements. This project was made possible by the King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Material, which funded the research and extra cost of the material.
  • Plastic Lumber - Stadium Applications
    Stadium Administration Maintenance Division personnel installed over 200 units of recycled plastic lumber to replace wooden "channel boards" securing the Kingdome artificial turf, in 1994. The performance of this material has proven superior to that of virgin lumber and has demonstrated a longer replacement schedule and lower life-cycle cost. This application has generated interest from stadia around the country and has been adopted by both the Minneapolis Metrodome and B.C. Place in Vancouver B.C. Canada. The Stadium has also purchased recycled plastic for fence slats, restroom partitions, worm bins, signage, and "skid pads" for the feet of portable bleachers, all with good results. In 1996, the Kingdome has plans to purchase additional recycled plastic channel boards and benches.

• Shredded Wood Waste from land clearing debris is used by the Solid Waste Division for temporary road surface at the Cedar Hills Landfill. County agencies, using a supply contract maintained by the Recycled Product Procurement Program, purchased nearly $110,000 worth of this material in 1995/96. By replacing the virgin aggregate formerly used in this application, the Division saved over $75,000.
  A demonstration of shredded wood-waste at the King County Jail in 1995, led to a collaboration between the vendor and the West-Point wastewater treatment facility of the Department of Natural Resources. They developed a specification for a horticultural mulch and used 4,000 yards of this material for that project, and saved over $6,000. The producer has opened a new market based on the product developed through that collaboration and is optimistic about future growth of this product. This year, the King County Airport is planning to use this material in major landscape projects.

• Rubber Chips made of processed waste-tire material are used by Parks Division as play-area cover and in regular maintenance of these areas. Not only does this product meet the safety and performance standards set by Parks Division, it also uses rubber derived largely from Washington state waste tires. Parks Division also purchases recycled rubber mats to use as backstop padding in ball parks.

• Toner Cartridges for laser printers are purchased under a contract developed in collaboration with local vendors and maintained by the Recycled Product Procurement Program. Cartridges supplied under this contract must meet original equipment standards and provide full guarantees for performance and equipment damage. The specifications are stringent and no damage has been attributed to cartridge failure in the five year history of the contract. County purchases of more than 2500 cartridges at a cost of $87,000 saved over $200,000 1995-96, as the cost is less than one-third the cost of new cartridges. Spent cartridges are remanufactured and all components are recycled when their useful life is over, reducing the landfill disposal of hazardous material.

Purchase Summary

This table represents the quantity and dollar amount of non-paper recycled product purchases reported from term supply contracts and direct purchases reported by agency liaisons. Term contract purchases are captured by the direct-reporting mechanisms maintained by the Recycled Product Procurement Program. The Program's liaison network is used when agencies purchase products by other means. Such purchases occur in construction or other service contracts, not tied to term-supply contracts, or are executed by "direct-voucher" for evaluation purposes or for purchases too small for a formal term contract.

Recycled material purchases saved money in 1996:

III Other Program Elements

Agency Liaison Network

The Recycled Product Procurement Program works with agencies to develop practicable and fiscally responsible ways to increase the use of recycled products. It provides agencies with recycled product information through a network of people who act as liaisons between the program and the agencies. It then uses that network to share evaluation results and specifications developed by users between agencies and makes them available to suburban cities and other jurisdictions. It also helps agencies create evaluation opportunities and revise contract administration procedures to develop methods to routinely use recycled materials whenever practicable.

During 1995/96, the re-organization of King County agencies to incorporate those formerly within the METRO organization nearly doubled the number of employees in the County. This made it necessary to establish new liaisons and renew those in reorganized agencies.

The program hosted informational tours, meetings, and other events to provide information on recycled product procurement opportunities to agencies:

• Recycled glass for drainage and construction-fill applications
• Recycled product design competition, award winning products
• Recycled tire mats for construction
• Recycled wood-mulch and compost at West Point wastewater treatment facility
• Manufacture and application of GROCO, biosolid soil amendment and mulch
• Manufacture of recycled plastic bags
• Manufacture and application of recycled plastic lumber
• Manufacture and application of recycled wood-mulch

Internet Information Project

King County is providing recycled product procurement information through the Internet at:

http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/index.htm

Through this use of the internet's World-Wide-Web, the program shares the experiences of King County agencies with other users. This allows reciprocal information-sharing on recycled product procurement topics with suburban cities and other jurisdictions. 1996 enhancements to this web-site included the development of product performance summaries by which County Agencies are able to make available detailed information about their experience in evaluating, specifying, contracting, and using recycled materials in specific applications. This information is in a simple "fact-sheet" format to make it easily accessible. Data includes contact information for project personnel, cost and savings data, performance data, installation details, and manufacturer and distributor contact information.

Product Performance Summaries

Aggregate, Recycled Concrete:

• Temporary Road Base at the Cedar Hills Landfill
• Crushed Rock Surfacing at the Houghton Custodial Landfill
• Crushed Rock Surfacing at the Puyallup/Kit Corner Custodial Landfill
• Structural Fill at the Regional Justice Center

Aggregate, Recycled Glass:

• Pipe Bedding at the Houghton Custodial Landfill
• Pipe Bedding at the Puyallup/Kit Corner Custodial Landfill
• Recycled Glass Cullet as Retaining Wall Backfill (Roads Division)

Asphalt, Recycled:

• Utility Road (Roads Division)
• Road Base at the Regional Justice Center

Compost:

• Compost (biosolids)-Amended Topsoil at the West Point Treatment Plant
• Compost (yardwaste)-Amended Topsoil in Roads operations

Plastic Lumber, Recycled:

• Artificial turf system elements at the Kingdome
• Truck Sideboards at the Equipment Shop
• Bench Slats at Redondo Beach Park

Wood Waste, Recycled:

• Temporary Road Base at the Cedar Hills Landfill
• Landscape Mulch at the West Point Sewage Treatment Plant

Web-site contents:

• King County recycled product procurement program annual reports (1994, 1995, 1996)
• King County recycled product procurement policy
• Model policy and implementation guide
• King County recycled product contracts list
• Contract language for buy-recycled contracts
• Information resources for buyers

Specifications for recycled construction and landscaping materials:

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  Aggregate, Recycled Glass

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  Aggregate, Recycled Concrete

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  Asphalt, Recycled

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  Compost: Organic Soil Amendment, Mulch

• Shredded Wood-Waste: Erosion Control, Mulch

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  Paint, Recycled

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  Plastic "Lumber"

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  Recycling During Construction Projects

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  Tire-rubber: Mats, Playground Material, Lightweight Fill

Specifications for recycled automotive and office products:

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  Antifreeze, Re-Refined

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  Laser Printer Toner Cartridges, Remanufactured

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  Motor Oil, Re-Refined

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  Paper, Recycled

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  Plastic can-liners, Recycled

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  Tire Retreading and Retreads

• Product performance summaries
• Links to web-sites relevant to environmentally preferable procurement

Public Involvement

The King County Recycled Product Procurement Program offers its experience in support of the planning, policy-development, and procurement education activities of various organizations, and jurisdictions. Program personnel participated in the delivery of public information and technical assistance programs conducted by the following organizations during 1995-96:

• ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials):
  Committee D06, Paper and Paper Products
  Subcommittee D06.40, developing a standard terminology for recycled paper

• City of New York:
  Advised on policy implementation strategy at New York roundtable

• Clean Washington Center, Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development: Participated in "Future of Washington Recycling" study group

• Edmonds Community College:
  Short-course for horticulture and landscape design classes

• King County Solid Waste Division:
  Presentations to suburban cities recycling coordinators
  Presentations to employee recycling coordinators

• King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials:
  Disseminated information on Commission resources to County agencies

• New York State Energy Research and Development Authority:
  Advised on policy implementation strategy at Washington DC conference

• Recyclers United Network:
  Review of King County procurement program results and plans

• Recycling Insights:
  Presented recycled construction material information to contractors symposium

• Suburban King County Cities:
  Technical assistance presentations on policy implementation for the cities of Duvall, Carnation, North Bend, and Snoqualmie

Publicity

A key to the success of the King County Recycled Product Procurement Program has been the exchange of practical information with other users of these unfamiliar materials. Many of these exchanges have come as a consequence of exposure through national magazines, newspapers, and other publications. Among the publications which featured the King County Recycled Product Procurement Program in 1995/96 were:

• Data Sources Directory for Purchasing Officials:July, 1996
  Published by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for the Energy-Efficient Procurement Collaborative

• Recycling Times:November 1995: highlighted and summarized annual report
  July, 1996: "Treasure-trove of data here..." highlighted web-site

• The Green Business Letter: May, 1996: Web-site highly rated

• Conservatree's Greenline: December, 1995: Program summary
  April 1996: highlighted web-site

• Association of Oregon Recyclers: December 1995: recommended web-site

• Recycled Products Business Letter: November 1995: article highlighted annual report
  May 1995: article highlighted web-site

• Recycled Products Guide: October 1995: article recommended web-site
  April 1995: article highlighted procurement program

• American City & County: September, 1995: article highlighted web-site

• Scrap Tire News: August 1995: article highlighted web-site

• Seattle Times: April, 1995 - Article described program and web-site

In addition, many web-page authors have created links to Program web site.

King County Policy Revision

The King County Recycled Product Procurement Policy (Executive Policy CON 7-1-2, A/EP) was revised in 1995 to accommodate changes to the procurement guidelines of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and to reflect the County's four years of experience in policy implementation. This policy enables the County to use the mechanisms established to increase recycled product procurement to increase the procurement of other environmentally preferable products. The revised policy is available on the World-Wide-Web at:

http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/index.htm

Model Procurement Policy

Program personnel continued to promote the development of recycled product procurement policies by suburban cities by providing technical support to the Solid Waste Division's Waste Reduction/Recycling Section for the King County Model Recycled Product Procurement Policy. Program personnel also provide direct technical assistance to suburban cities for policy implementation, including sharing contracts, specifications, and procurement strategies.

Solid Waste Division reported that nineteen suburban cities had adopted recycled product procurement policies based on the King County model as of July, 1996.

Related King County programs

King county agencies support markets for recycled materials by participating in the Recycled Product Procurement Program. Other County programs making important contributions include:

• Construction, Demolition and Landclearing (CDL) Debris Program, Solid Waste Division: assists County businesses and agencies in management of construction waste. Assisted the County's Regional Justice Center Project, enabling that project to recycle or re-use 95% of project waste during its demolition phase, diverting over 35,000 tons of material from the landfill.

• Employee Recycling Program, Department of Construction and Facilities Management: recycles 45 tons/month, added three new sites in 1996.

• GreenWorks, Business Recycling Program, Solid Waste Division: assists County businesses in establishing profitable participation in recycling efforts.

• Hazardous Waste Program, Solid Waste Division: Coordinates special collection events and provides hazardous-waste information to businesses and citizens.

• Industrial Materials Exchange (IMEX), Department of Public Health: Produces a catalogue to encourage waste exchanges, avoiding landfill of unwanted surplus commodities.

• Kingdome, Department of Stadium Administration: Event-waste recycling, on-site worm-composting.

• King County Commission for Marketing Recyclable Materials, Department of Natural Resources: Distributed funds to agencies to overcome increased costs of using recycled materials.

• Roads Division: CROW program, reduces waste in Division projects through recycling and reuse, and supports the added cost of using recycled materials with the program: "Money Talks - Buy Recycled".

• Transit Division: reduces waste and finds markets for hard to recycle items unique to transit operations

Appendix: Procurement Initiatives of Agencies

King County agencies that have evaluated and used various recycled materials are represented below. Agency personnel welcome inquiries about their experiences with these materials.

Department of Adult Detention

Operations

recycled plastic can liners

Department of Construction & Facilities Management

Airport Division

recycled paint

recycled plastic can liners

remanufactured antifreeze

re-refined oil

 

Regional Justice Center

recycling on site

recycled asphalt

recycled concrete aggregate

topsoil containing compost

 

Facilities Maintenance

recycled plastic can liners

recycled shredded wood mulch

Department of Development and Environmental Services

Administrative Services

recycled computer disks

recycled plastic can liners

remanufactured toner cartridges

Department of Natural Resources

Solid Waste Division (Cedar Hills, Engineering)

recycled asphalt

recycled concrete aggregate

recycled glass aggregate

recycled paint

remanufactured antifreeze

re-refined oil

shredded wood waste

topsoil containing compost

 

Surface Water Management

topsoil containing compost

 

Water Pollution Control

biosolids compost

Department of Parks & Cultural Resources

Maintenance & Facilities

recycled plastic can liners

recycled plastic bollards

recycled plastic lumber

recycled rubber mats

rubber chips (playground)

Department of Stadium Administration

Maintenance/Operations

recycled plastic can liners

recycled plastic lumber

recycled plastic signs

recycled plastic worm bins

remanufactured antifreeze

re-refined oil

rubber mats

Department of Transportation

Roads Division

recycled asphalt

recycled concrete aggregate

recycled glass aggregate

recycled plastic bollards

recycled plastic lumber

recycled plastic picnic table

recycled plastic traffic cones

topsoil containing compost

tire stops

traffic delineators

 

Fleet Administration, ER&R

recapped tires

recycled plastic can liners

recycled plastic lumber

re-refined oil

remanufactured antifreeze

wheel chocks

 

Fleet Administration, Motor Pool

remanufactured antifreeze

re-refined oil

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