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ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PURCHASING CITY OF SAN LEANDRO 7.12 "LEEDTM Rating System" means the self-assessing system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council designed for rating new and existing commercial, institutional, and high- rise residential buildings. 7.13 "Organic Pest Management" prohibits the use and application of toxic chemical pesticides and strives to prevent pest problems through the application of natural, organic horticultural and maintenance practices. All pest control products shall be in keeping with, but not limited to, those products on the approved list of California Certified Organic Foods (CCOF). 7.14 "Post-consumer Material" means a finished material which would normally be disposed of as a solid waste, having reached its intended end-use and completed its life cycle as a consumer item, and does not include manufacturing or converting wastes. 7.15 "Practical" and "Practicable" mean whenever possible and compatible with local, state and federal law, without reducing safety, quality, or effectiveness and where the product or service is available at a reasonable cost in a reasonable period of time. 7.16 "Pre-consumer Material" means material or by-products generated after manufacture of a product is completed but before the product reaches the end-use consumer. Pre-consumer material does not include mill and manufacturing trim, scrap, or broke which is generated at a manufacturing site and commonly reused on-site in the same or another manufacturing process. 7.17 "Recovered Material" means fragments of products or finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes pre-consumer and post-consumer material but does not include excess resources of the manufacturing process. 7.18 "Recycled Content" means the percentage of recovered material, including pre-consumer and post-consumer materials, in a product. 7.19 "Recycled Content Standard" means the minimum level of recovered material and/or post- consumer material necessary for products to qualify as "recycled products." 7.20 "Recycled Product" means a product that meets the City of San Leandro's recycled content policy objectives for post-consumer and recovered material. 7.21 "Remanufactured Product" means any product diverted from the supply of discarded materials by refurbishing and marketing said product without substantial change to its original form. 7.22 "Reused Product" means any product designed to be used many times for the same or other purposes without additional processing except for specific requirements such as cleaning, painting or minor repairs. 7.23 "Source Reduction" refers to products that result in a net reduction in the generation of waste compared to their previous or alternate version and includes durable, reusable and remanufactured products; products with no, or reduced, toxic constituents; and products marketed with no, or reduced, packaging. Page 6