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<br />- "Compost Products" means mulch, soil amendments, ground cover, or other landscaping material <br />derived from the biological or mechanical conversion of cellulose-containing waste materials <br /> <br />- HE-Waste" refers to electronic materials that are no longer usable in their current state. Electronics <br />are not to be confused with electrical appliances. Electronics include computers and their peripherals, <br />calculators, TVs, digital and video cameras. <br /> <br />- "Environmentally preferable products and services" means products and services that have a lesser <br />or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products and <br />services that serve the same purpose. This comparison may considerraw materials acquisition, <br />production, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, reuse, operation, maintenance, or disposal of the <br />product. More detail below. <br /> <br />- "Green building practices" means the incorporation of environmental, health, and waste prevention <br />criteria in building design, site-planning and preparation, materials acquisition, construction or <br />remodeling, deconstruction, and waste disposal. <br /> <br />- "Integrated pest management" means the use of a combination of pest control methods including <br />improved sanitation, mechanical, physical, biological, or chemical means. <br /> <br />- "Post-consumer recycled material" means only those products generated by a business or consumer <br />which have served their intended end uses, and which have been separated or diverted from the solid <br />waste stream for the purposes of collection, recycling and disposition. <br /> <br />- "Practicable" means sufficient in performance and available at a reasonable price. <br /> <br />Final determination of the practicability of any given product must lie with the users of the product, <br />since it is they who understand their performance and budgetary requirements. Evaluation should <br />consider life-cycle and replacement costs. <br /> <br />- "Price Preference" means a percentage by which offered prices for recycled products are reduced for <br />purposes of bid evaluation. <br /> <br />For example, under a 10% price-preference, if a bid of $1.00 per unit is received for arecycled <br />product meeting specifications, the bid price will be reduced by $0.10 (10%) and evaluated as <br />though it had been $0.90. If this bid results in a contract award, the price actually contracted will be <br />the bid price of $1.00 per unit. <br /> <br />- "Processed-chlorine free paper" refers to paper that is manufactured using a percentage of post- <br />consumer recycled paper fiber (that may contain residues of chlorine) and is whitened without adding <br />chlorine or chlorine derivatives. <br /> <br />- "Rainforest hardwoodl tropical wood" means wood that originates from trees grown in a rainforest. <br /> <br />- "Recyclable" means a product or material which, after its intended end use, can demonstrably be <br />diverted from Cabarrus County's solid waste stream for use as a raw material in the manufacture of <br />another product. <br /> <br />- "Recycled material" means material and byproducts that have been recovered or diverted from solid <br />waste and that can be utilized in place of raw or virgin material in manufacturing a product. It is derived <br />from post- consumer recycled material, manufacturing waste, industrial scrap, agricultural waste, and <br />other waste material, but does not include material or byproducts generated from, and commonly <br />reused within, an original manufacturing process. <br /> <br />I <br />~.' , <br /> <br />r-/lp <br />