Los Angeles Municipal Code § 7.82 Recycling of City-owned Salvaged Hazardous Electronic Equipment

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.

As used in this article:

“Certified Recycling Contractor” means a contractor that has met all of the payment eligibility requirements specified in California Public Resources Code Section 42479(b).

“Hazardous Electronic Equipment” means “covered electronic device” and all other electronic items regulated as hazardous electronic waste when discarded or disposed under applicable California or federal laws and regulations, but not including salvaged electronic equipment that the City contracts to sell to another California municipality for re-use, subject to the condition that the California municipality handle and dispose of the electronic equipment in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations.

“Salvaged” means obsolete or worn out items, or re-usable items that are no longer needed by City departments, and which the City departments turn over to the Department of General Services, Supply Services, Salvage Section, for final disposition.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07.

(a) All City departments must list all usable electronic equipment in the Citi-MAX Re-Use Program or other City-sponsored Re-Use Program for at least 30 days before the City departments turn over the equipment to the Department of General Services, Supply Services, Salvage Section.

(b) General Recycling Procedures. The Department of General Services will arrange for recycling of salvaged City-owned hazardous electronic equipment by a certified recycling contractor. The Digital Inclusion Pilot Project is exempt from this requirement.

(1) Exemption of Digital Inclusion Pilot Project. All City-owned desktop personal computers to be removed from City service shall be exempt from the recycling procedure in (b) above, and instead diverted to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Project as follows:

(A) The Department of General Services shall contract with a nonprofit organization located in the City of Los Angeles to administer the City’s Digital Inclusion Pilot Project.

(B) The City’s desktop personal computers to be removed from City service shall be donated to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Project under the criteria listed in Administrative Code Section 22.547, Subsection (a).

(C) All hard drives from City-owned desktop computers donated to the Digital Inclusion Pilot Program shall be wiped of all data using methods and software employing United States Department of Defense standards.

(D) After hard drives are wiped of all data, the computers shall be refurbished (or salvaged, if non-usable) and sent to qualifying low-income residents or nonprofit organizations in the City of Los Angeles. (The nonprofit organization shall qualify which residents or nonprofit organizations shall receive the computers).

(c) Any City Proprietary Department or other City department having control of its own special funds, which adopts a similar recycling policy, may recycle its salvaged hazardous electronic equipment through the program administered by the Department of General Services under this article, provided that the department pays in advance all its associated costs.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 178,450, Eff. 4-16-07. Amended by: Ord. No. 183,116, Eff. 7-28-14.