The
legislature finds and declares that the buildings and facilities
owned and leased by state government produce significant amounts
of solid and hazardous wastes, and actions must be taken to
reduce and recycle these wastes and thus reduce the costs
associated with their disposal. In order for the operations of
state government to provide the citizens of the state an example
of positive waste management, the legislature further finds and
declares that state government should undertake an aggressive
program designed to reduce and recycle solid and hazardous wastes
produced in the operations of state buildings and facilities to
the maximum extent possible.
The office of waste reduction, in cooperation with the
*department of general administration, shall establish an
intensive waste reduction and recycling program to promote the
reduction of waste produced by state agencies and to promote the
source separation and recovery of recyclable and reusable
materials.
All state agencies, including but not limited to, colleges,
community colleges, universities, offices of elected and
appointed officers, the supreme court, court of appeals, and
administrative departments of state government shall fully
cooperate with the office of waste reduction and recycling in all
phases of implementing the provisions of this section. The
office shall establish a coordinated state plan identifying each
agency's participation in waste reduction and recycling. The
office shall develop the plan in cooperation with a multiagency
committee on waste reduction and recycling. Appointments to the
committee shall be made by the director of the *department of
general administration. The director shall notify each agency of
the committee, which shall implement the applicable waste
reduction and recycling plan elements. All state agencies are to
use maximum efforts to achieve a goal of increasing the use of
recycled paper by fifty percent by July 1, 1993.
[1989 c 431 § 53.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The "department of general administration" was renamed the "department of enterprise services" by 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 § 107.
Severability -- Section captions not law -- 1989 c 431: See RCW 70.95.901 and 70.95.902.