COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

By His Excellency

EDWARD J. KING 
Governor

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 180

STATE OFFICE WHITE PAPER RECYCLING PROGRAM

    WHEREAS, the Commonwealth supports and encourages efforts to promote
responsible solid waste management, including the recycling of paper, and

    WHEREAS, the Corporation for a Cleaner Commonwealth has proposed the
establishment of a State Office White Paper Recycling Program, to recycle high-
grade office paper, and

    WHEREAS, the objectives of said program are to use presently wasted paper
resources by a remanufacturing process, and to create new business opportunities in
the Commonwealth which will involve and employ handicapped and economically
disadvantaged individuals, and

    WHEREAS, said program will begin in several state office buildings in Boston,
to develop a model that may be expanded in the future,

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Edward J. King, Governor of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Supreme Executive
Magistrate of the Commonwealth, do hereby order and direct all secretariats,
offices, departments, boards, commissions, councils or other agencies of the execu-
tive department under my jurisdiction and the officers, members and employees 
thereof to cooperate as necessary and appropriate to effect the operational planning
for and the implementation of the State Office White Paper Recycling Program.

Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston
this twenty-eighth day of July, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eighty and of the independence of
America, two-hundred and five.

EDWARD J. KING
GOVERNOR
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY
Secretary of the Commonwealth

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS