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PAGE 7 <br />ENVIRONMENTAL PURCHASING <br /> <br />The City supports and recognizes sustainable practices focusing on cost savings and energy use <br />reductions, including those pertaining to purchasing. Therefore, the City shall to the extent <br />possible and practicable purchase only EnergyStar and EPEAT certified equipment and <br />appliances, purchase U. S. EPA WaterSense certified products when possible and practicable <br />and, whenever possible, the City shall only purchase paper containing at least 30% postconsumer <br />recycled content. <br /> <br />The requirements for the SCORE grant, GreenStep Cities and Minnesota State Law are noted <br />below. <br /> <br />SCORE Language: Implement a “green” purchasing procurement policy for city functions and <br />facilities to use reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging. <br /> <br />GreenStep Cities Language: Best Practice 15.1- Sustainable Purchasing- Adopt a sustainable <br />purchasing policy or administrative guidelines/practices directing that the city purchase at least: <br />a) EnergyStar certified equipment and appliances and b) paper containing at least 30% post- <br />consumer recycled content. <br /> <br />Minnesota State Law: 16C.073- Subd. 2.Purchases. (a) Whenever practicable, a public entity <br />shall: (2) purchase recycled content copy paper with at least 30 percent postconsumer material <br />by weight and purchase printing and office paper with at least ten percent postconsumer material <br />by weight. <br />Subd. 3. Public entity purchasing. (a) Notwithstanding section 365.37, 375.21, 412.311, <br />or 473.705, a public entity may purchase recycled materials when the price of the recycled <br />materials does not exceed the price of nonrecycled materials by more than ten percent. <br />