Tennessee Code Title 68. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection § 68-211-606

(a) The department of general services shall, to the fullest extent possible when contracting for paper or paper products, purchase or approve for purchase only such paper or paper products that are manufactured or produced from recycled paper as specified in subsection (b).

(b) Subsection (a) shall be implemented by the department so that, of the total volume of paper purchased, recycled paper composes at least ten percent (10%) of the volume in 1990, at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the volume in 1992, and at least forty percent (40%) of the volume in 1994.

(c) In the case of the purchase of newsprint and newsprint products, at least forty percent (40%) of the fiber contained in recycled newsprint shall be postconsumer newspaper waste.

(d) This section shall not apply to the purchase of paper containers for food or beverages.

(e) As used in this section, “postconsumer waste” includes any product generated by a business or consumer which has served its intended end use, and which has been separated from solid waste for the purposes of collection, recycling and disposition.