This webinar will highlight the role of procurement in stimulating recycling markets, explain the government’s “buy-recycled” program and help facilitate public review of the program. Buying products with recycled content fosters the diversion and recycling of materials from the solid waste stream and promotes the use of these materials in the manufacture of new products. It creates domestic markets for materials collected and recycled through local recycling programs, strengthening local economies and the United States’ recycling system. The Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPGs) are the government’s buy-recycled program that seeks to harness the federal purchasing power, which stimulates the demand for recycled-content products. By 2007, EPA designated 61 items for federal procurement and issued procurement recommendations concerning these items. EPA is now seeking comment on its list of designated items and procurement recommendations. Register for the webinar to learn how procurement helps strengthen the United States’ recycling system, how CPGs benefit communities and businesses, and how to provide comment on CPGs.