N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 37-0205
Prohibitions

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GreenNY Specifications: Carpet Cleaning

NY State Office of General Services, September 20, 2023

“Affected entities are encouraged to use the following best practices to reduce the need for chemical use over the life of the carpet; for health and safety; and for extending the life of equipment…”
 
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No package or packaging component shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by a manufacturer or distributor which includes in the package itself, or in any packaging component, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or any other additives to which lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium has been included as an element during manufacture or distribution in excess of the concentration levels set forth in subdivision three of this section.

2.

No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by a manufacturer or distributor in a package which includes, in the package itself or in any of its packaging components, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or any other additives to which lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium has been included as an element during manufacture or distribution in excess of the concentration levels set forth in subdivision three of this section.

3.

The sum of the concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium present in any package or packaging component shall not exceed the following prior to incineration: 600 parts per million by weight (0.06%), effective January 1, 1992 250 parts per million by weight (0.025%), effective January 1, 1993 100 parts per million by weight (0.01%), effective January 1, 1994.

Source: Section 37-0205 — Prohibitions, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/37-0205 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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Sep. 22, 2014

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