GAF Sponsors “Find a Recycler” Section of ShingleRecycling.org

As partial of stability efforts to make recycling shingles easier for homeowners and contractors, alike, GAF sponsorts website that helps to locate recycling comforts nationwide.

Wayne, NJ (PRWEB) Aug 11, 2011

It is widely concluded that recycled asphalt shingles, with their high-quality asphalt, total and fibers, can be used in highway construction and might even urge a properties of these roads. Now GAF, North America’s largest thatch manufacturer, has announced a poignant enlargement of a efforts to support post-consumer shingle recycling. Building on a success of a Certified Green Roofer™ program, GAF has done a multiyear joining to unite a Find-A-Recycler territory of ShingleRecycling.org.

“Our idea is to make it easier for contractors to recycle asphalt shingles,” pronounced Martin Grohman, executive of sustainability during GAF. “We wish to do that dual ways—by noticing and rewarding roofers who recycle for their efforts; and now by creation shingle recycling yards easy to find.”

Preparing a roof for recycling is utterly straightforward—shingles, felt, and nails are kept apart while a aged thatch is being removed, and other materials that come off a roof are afterwards placed on tip of a bucket for apart recycling. During a shingle harsh process, nails are private by absolute magnets, and are recycled as well. In sequence to work on a inhabitant scale, GAF’s module does not need thatch contractors to close in with any specific recycling company, though encourages them to use a recycler listed on ShingleRecycling.org.

ShingleRecycling.org is a heading apparatus for information about recycling pavement shingles.

In further to a state-by-state database of locations where thatch contractors can recycle their tear-offs, ShingleRecycling.org includes a resources of technical information to inspire recycling. The new sponsorship is approaching to urge searchability of a database, that already includes some-more than 150 listings nationwide, and yield for larger magnitude of updates.

Asphalt shingle recycling is one of those singular vital recycling initiatives that creates both mercantile and environmental sense, deliberation a factors: clean, post-consumer recycled element with good value; interested, encouraged homeowners and contractors; and a viable long-term application—paving asphalt. That’s because seductiveness in pavement shingle recycling is flourishing quickly, and indeed, according to a National Asphalt Paving Association, pavement is America’s many recycled material.

To learn some-more about GAF thatch products, revisit http://www.gaf.com.

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Alyssa Hall
GAF
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