4:70 - Resource Conservation

The Superintendent or designee shall manage a program of energy and resource conservation for the District that includes:

  1. Periodic review of procurement procedures and specifications to ensure that purchased products and supplies are reusable, durable, or made from recycled materials, if economically and practically feasible.
  2. Buying recycled paper and paper products in amounts that will, at a minimum, meet the specifications in The School Code, if economically and practically feasible.
  3. Periodic review of procedures on the reduction of solid waste generated by academic, administrative, and other institutional functions. These procedures shall: (a) require recycling the District’s waste stream, including landscape waste, computer paper, and white office paper, if economically and practically feasible; (b) include investigation of the feasibility of potential markets for other recyclable materials that are present in the District’s waste stream; and (c) establish a goal for the reduction in the amount of solid waste generated by the District, when it is economically and practically feasible to do so.
  4. Energy conservation measures.

Adopted: September 8, 1997
Revised: March 19, 2012; April 23, 2019; September 19, 2022; September 23, 2024

Legal Reference: 105 ILCS 5/10-20.19c and 5/19b.