A new re-use it trend is re-working roof shingles for a big recycling project that takes a material usually found over head, and puts it underfoot.
Roofing shingles to roads… more and more roofing contractors are getting on board with reducing the waste they put in land fills.
They are recycling the used roof shingles they are hired to replace.
And that’s just what Garlock-French Corporation has been doing for the past two years.
Garlock-French’s Bryan Karel says, “We recycle extra shingles because it’s the right thing to do.”
Believe it or not, roofing shingles and roads have a lot in common.
“The asphalt is what’s keeping the roof water-tight and that’s what the asphalt companies want. It’s a higher-grade asphalt than what the roads will typically use and so they like the asphalt that’s coming off the roofs for the pavement,” says Karel.
Once sorted for unusable materials like nails, the shingles are ground up to form black granules. Then these former shingles can either be mixed with other materials to form the actual road surface, or it can be used as a substitute for class 5 gravel to form the base of a roadway. Either way, it’s a much more earth-friendly fate than taking up space in a land fill.
Source: KARE11.com
By Laura Betker