Should you hire that guy that says that he works for a "green" roofing company and
that they recycle all their shingles? You may want to rethink that.
Hi everybody this is Tracy Bookman owner of homestead roofing and welcome to our
walk in the park video series where we take just a few minutes to answer your
questions about roof repairs, roof replacements, and the insurance claim
process and today we're gonna answer the question: can my shingles be recycled? So
that's a pretty important question right I mean I don't know anybody who likes
the idea of dumping a bunch of asphalt shingles into a landfill which are gonna sit
there for the next thousand years or however long it would be but the fact of
the matter is here in Colorado shingles asphalt shingles cannot be recycled. Now
it used to be that shingles could be recycled so called recycled but that all
ended in September of 2015 when the Colorado Department of Public Health
declared that any facility that was accepting asphalt shingles to recycle
could no longer accept them. Now this decision came about not because asphalt
shingles can't be recycled but because they determined that there just is not
enough of a market for it so in 2014 the last full year that shingles were
allowed to be recycled here in Colorado, there was a hundred and seven thousand
tons of shingle material at recycling facilities but yet only 15 tons got
recycled. So if I do my math correctly that's less than or approximately one
one thousandth of a percent of the shingles that were taken in to be
recycled actually got recycled. So what was happening was these facilities that
were accepting torn off shingles to recycle them we're just building up
mountains and mountains of old shingles. If you live in the Colorado Springs area
and you frequent the east side of Colorado Springs you might even be
familiar with one of those mountains it's over at the corner
Mark Scheffel and Constitution. So it was decided by the Colorado state government
that any recycling facility that was in business at the time could no longer
accept new new old shingles if that makes sense what I'm saying so they
could work through the inventory of shingles that they had but they couldn't
accept any new ones. So if you have a roofer at your house who's trying to
sell you on his services and he's telling you that you should use him
because they're a green roofing company and they recycled the shingles well now
you know that he's just kind of pulling your chain so I hope this video has been
helpful for you if you've gotten any questions about this topic or any other
topic related to roofing you can give us a call at our office phone number right
up here 719.433.6991 you can also visit our
website that's right down here homesteadroofingcolorado.com where we've got a
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I'm Tracy Bookman owner of Homestead Roofing.