Draconian recycling policies due to new garbage entity.

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Rules in my town say "no construction debris". They don't mention project size, and going to the dump costs something like $175 in this area. For my recent home fix-up projects, nothing huge, I had a pile that got bagged and doled out, a little each week, until it was all gone.

In Hampton Virginia I took a load of roof tear off to the waste management ran dump. Charged me over $100 in 2011.
The rest of it went in the rolling trash can over the course of about the next year.

 

[Nessism1]

In Hampton Virginia I took a load of roof tear off to the waste management ran dump. Charged me over $100 in 2011.
The rest of it went in the rolling trash can over the course of about the next year.

Roofing seems to have special recycling rules in my area. Mandatory recycling, although I'm unclear how that's tracked.

I had a new roof put on a couple of years ago. My house had three layers of shingles, and the detached garage had four. Those demo guys worked their butts off. They positioned a dump truck next to the roof, and shoveled off the roof and directly into the truck. That was the only saving grace.

 

[oil pan 4]

Roofing seems to have special recycling rules in my area. Mandatory recycling, although I'm unclear how that's tracked.

I had a new roof put on a couple of years ago. My house had three layers of shingles, and the detached garage had four. Those demo guys worked their butts off. They positioned a dump truck next to the roof, and shoveled off the roof and directly into the truck. That was the only saving grace.

I've heard the only way to recycle asphalt shingles is there are some pavement companies that have machinery that can grind up all the singles, felt, fiberglass and nails adding it to asphalt pavement they make.
Making it into pavement seems to be the answer for a lot of things. Solar panel glass, wind turbine blades, glass, ceramic, plastic.
I read that adding unwanted, too difficult to recycle plastic to asphalt pavement was supposed to make super pavement. Replacing some of the asphalt with plastic was supposed to make super pavement that was highly resist to cracking and lasted between 50% and 2x longer. But it doesn't seem to have ever happened.

 

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Replacing some of the asphalt with plastic was supposed to make super pavement that was highly resist to cracking and lasted between 50% and 2x longer. But it doesn't seem to have ever happened.

Probably happened but like most of these things never continues.

Like using rubberized asphalt in high temp, low weight areas. Several roads were actually made of tires and asphalt, kids shows showed how it was made and various benefits but it never lasted outside California but of the overall volume/weight of the asphalt I am uncertain what percentage.

 

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Probably happened but like most of these things never continues.

Like using rubberized asphalt in high temp, low weight areas. Several roads were actually made of tires and asphalt, kids shows showed how it was made and various benefits but it never lasted outside California but of the overall volume/weight of the asphalt I am uncertain what percentage.

My guess is the plastic off gasses something terrible as the plastic is being melted in with the asphalt.

 

[Nessism1]

My guess is the plastic off gasses something terrible as the plastic is being melted in with the asphalt.

What about using ground up roofing shingles and tar paper in asphalt? No clue if this is actually viable, just spitballing things that popped into my head.

 

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What about using ground up roofing shingles and tar paper in asphalt? No clue if this is actually viable, just spitballing things that popped into my head.

Yeah this is being done. The asphalt company just needs to be willing to spend a few hundred thousand dollars on a shingle shredder.
If people bring roofing tear off without any wood to a pavement company then pay the company to take it it can be worth it.
It's cheaper for a dump to take some money from us and bury it all, wood, nails shingles, flashing, ect.