In September 2008, the Mill Valley’s City Manager issued a directive with the following requirements: 1) The minimum recycled content of office paper used by the City would increase from 30% to 100% post-consumer content and 2) All City departments would adopt a goal of reducing overall paper purchases by an average of 20% below 2007 levels by December 2009.

A one-page list of Best Practices to reduce paper use was compiled and sent to all City staff.

The directive specifically provided exemptions for compliance if the cost differential between the two types of paper exceeded 10%. However, a local print shop provides a high quality 100% post-consumer paper for the same cost as 30% post consumer paper, so there have been no fiscal impacts.