California mandates recycled carpet usage for state buildings.Starting Sept. 1, 2006, any carpet purchased by any California state government office must contain at least 10 percent recycled materials. The recycled portion can come either from old carpets or other materials that would normally be headed for landfills. The California Gold California Gold were an American soccer team, founded in 1998. The team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2006, when the team left the league and the franchise was terminated. Sustainable Carpet Standard was established by a task force charged with implementing portions of the state's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing law. In addition to recycling requirements, the new standard also calls for compliance with strict California guidelines for protecting the health of building occupants by reducing the amount of volatile organic compounds volatile organic compound Environment Any toxic cabon-based (organic) substance that easily become vapors or gases–eg, solvents–paint thinners, lacquer thinner, degreasers, dry cleaning fluids escaping indoors from new carpeting. "This new state initiative is an excellent beginning in a long-neglected area of recycling," says Ron Joseph, director of the California Department of General Services The California Department of General Services (DGS) is a state government agency in the executive branch of the government of California in the United States. It provides a large number of services to other agencies in the government of California, playing a role that is similar to . California purchases an estimated 12 million square feet of new carpeting per year. "With this new initiative, we're hoping to leverage the state's huge purchasing power Purchasing Power 1. The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy. Purchasing power is important because, all else being equal, inflation decreases the amount of goods or services you'd be able to purchase. 2. to encourage competition among manufacturers to develop even better recycling techniques," Joseph says. Detailed information on the new California Gold Sustainable Carpet Standard can be found online at www.green.ca.gov\EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. \ standards. |
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