Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 90-139 - Trade and Consumer Protection › Chapter ATCP 137 - Environmental labeling of products › Subchapter I - Recycled, Recyclable or Degradable Products › Section ATCP 137.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this subchapter:
(1) "Decomposition" means the biological,
				  chemical, photochemical, or other physical process by which an organic
				  substance is broken down and its molecular structure dismantled into soluble
				  nutrients, minerals, inorganic compounds, simple organic compounds found in
				  nature, carbon dioxide, methane or water, or any combination of those breakdown
				  products.
(2) "Department" means
				  the state of Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer
				  protection.
(3) "Organic substance"
				  means a natural or synthetic substance consisting of, derived from, or
				  chemically related to carbon compounds in which hydrogen is bonded to
				  carbon.
(4) "Package" means any
				  container, wrapping or packing material in which a product is contained or
				  enclosed.
(5) "Person" means an
				  individual, corporation, partnership, association or other business
				  organization or entity.
(6)
				  "Post-consumer material" means a product or other material generated by a
				  business or consumer that has served its intended end use and has been
				  recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream for purposes of
				  recycling.
(7) "Pre-consumer
				  material" means material generated during any step in the production of a
				  product that has been recovered or diverted from the solid waste stream for the
				  purpose of recycling. "Pre-consumer material" does not include the virgin
				  content of scraps or by-products generated and reused within the original
				  product manufacturing process.
(8)
				  "Product" means a manufactured article, good, commodity, package or container
				  that is sold or leased, offered for sale or lease, or promoted or distributed
				  for sale or lease at wholesale or retail. "Product" includes a package or
				  container that accompanies, encloses or contains another product.
(9) "Recycled material" means pre-consumer
				  material or post-consumer material, or both.
(10) "Represent that a product is degradable"
				  means to represent directly or by implication, through the use of any words or
				  images, that a product is capable of complete or partial decomposition, and
				  includes any representation that a product is biodegradable, photodegradable,
				  compostable or decomposable.
(11)
				  "Represent that a product is recyclable" means to represent directly or by
				  implication, through the use of any words or images, that a product is entirely
				  or partly composed of materials that can be recovered from the solid waste
				  stream and used in the manufacture of other products.
(12) "Represent that a product is recycled"
				  means to represent directly or by implication, through the use of any words or
				  images, that a product is entirely or partly composed of recycled
				  material.
(13) "Representation"
				  means any oral, written or pictorial representation made in connection with the
				  sale, lease, offering for sale or lease, promotion or distribution of a
				  product. "Representation" includes advertisements, product labels, statements
				  made in the print or broadcast media, and representations made in the form of
				  trademarks, logos, symbols or trade names.