Some 12 million tons of asphalt shingles end up in landfills every year. Can a new type of recycled shingle cut that number down substantially?
Off the manufacturing line: Standard Industries patented its process for making shingles with 15% recycled content.ach year, some 12 million tons of asphalt shingles, which represent the primary type of roofing in the United States, end up in landfills. Standard Industries’ GAF, whose roofs are on roughly one in four American homes, has a plan for keeping them out: A new version of its asphalt shingles that contain 15% recycled materials.
“It’s crazy how much landfill is taken up for these materials,” says GAF chief executive Jim Schnepper. “There has to be a concerted effort to push this in the market, and to get people to see the advantage of this.” “They are in a hail belt, but not the worst one,” he says. “The reason was that their landfill was getting filled up. In the last two hail storms, they were getting so much waste pile-up that the landfill was filling up faster than they had planned.”
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