[Adopted 9-5-2006 by Res. No. 972-2006 (Ch. 635, Art. I,
of the 1985 Code)]
It shall be the policy of the County of Suffolk to achieve,
to the fullest extent practicable, the reuse and recycling of electronic
products so as to reduce the effects of potentially hazardous pollutants
on the environment of Suffolk County.
All departments and agencies of the County of Suffolk shall
seek, whenever possible, to employ a strategy of reuse of electronic
equipment which requires no repairs or changes, provided that the
electronic equipment is not obsolete; such strategy shall include,
but not be limited to, donation of the electronic equipment to not-for-profit
organizations as permitted by applicable laws and resolutions of the
County of Suffolk, or reuse of electronic components such as memory,
disk drives, circuit boards and microprocessor chips.
County electronic equipment that is determined to be surplus
or obsolete by the Division of Purchasing and which is not sold at
auction or donated to a not-for-profit organization shall be recycled
only in a manner which will ensure the greatest protection of public
health and the environment, and the Department of Public Works is
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to issue an RFP to identify
and select an electronic waste recycler to implement this policy.
All departments and agencies of the County of Suffolk shall
require bidders and/or respondents to solicitations for electronic
equipment, whenever practicable, to propose a program in which the
bidder agrees to provide for the take-back of electronic products
that have reached the end of their useful life for environmentally
sound reuse, recycling or disposal, and which are not, or cannot be,
auctioned or donated as surplus property by the County of Suffolk.
