A New Home for Shingles
Recycle
It's estimated that between 8-11% of building scrap in our landfills comes from shingles. What can we do about it?
Instead of calling for the dumpster, I've been calling this company, Crutchall Resource Recycling:
http://www.recycleroofs.com/Other_Services.html
For new construction, I just have the roofers put it in my trailer and I take it to their drop off location. For tear offs on existing homes, they will drop off a container and pick it up when the roof is complete. Not to hard, replace one phone call to the dumpster company with a call to Crutchall. If everybody did this, we could save about 10 million tons of shingles in the landfills.
Re-Use
What do they do with it : Roofing can become part of the mix for asphalt paving. Here's an excerpt from an article with a link below the excerpt:
"It lightens the load at the landfill—re-roofing a house with a 2,000-square foot roof lands about four tons of tear-off shingles into landfills. 
An added benefit may turn up at the gas pump. Reusing a ton of shingles replaces the equivalent of two barrels of oil, which reduces the need for imported foreign crude.
“It's not like we turn it into oil, but it can be used in place of oil,” Crutchall Administrator Ellie Kane says.
Full Article:
http://www.capitalgainsmedia.com/Print.aspx?FileID=06f85c69-e501-4f37-8c56-b21d1d51f02e
According to the statistic, 1,000 square feet/roof (1 sqaure)=2 tons/roof=(replaces) 4barrels of crude oil. The most recent tear off I did was 4500 square feet of tear-off shingles. The math on that gives me 4.5 square=9 tons of waste shingles=18 barrels of
crude that can be used elsewhere. That's on one house.
Here is another good link on recycling shingles:
http://www.nerc.org/documents/asphalt.pdf
Re-Think
It's as easy for me to replace one phone call with another.
If everybody replacing a roof did this, we can take 10 percent of our waste out of
Landfills. Insist on it. It's not that hard.
Categories: Reduce, Recycle, Re-Use
Tags: green building Recycling Reusing Reducing
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The neat thing about recycling the shingles is the cost. It cost less than $10 to recycle the shingles on a 50 square new construction. Everybody wins on this.
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