Recycling Roofing Felt

Tarpaper recycling aps is one of the first companies in the world that has systematically established a process for recycling of roofing felt waste.

Recycling roofing felt.

The primary reason for reusing roofing felt waste is bitumen a refined oil product. Roofing adhesives may be hazardous and you should use protective wear when handling. The alternative option is to make an art piece out of them. According to the epa shingle recycling may require siting waste handling and or processing permits thus recyclers should work closely with their state and local environmental agencies to acquire proper permits and to ensure adequate handling for and testing of potential haz mats.

Environmental benefits with the reuse of roofing felt waste. The material can also come in the form of production waste from factories producing waterproofing. With bitumenmix 60 kilograms of co2 are saved per every produced ton of asphalt. Most of this material comes from roofing felt.

Via a number of waste management companies in sweden tarpaper recycling collects tar paper for recycling. Whether it is roofing shingles or a roofing felt you can always give them to a recycling company. The name of the end product is bitumenmix and it can replace approximately one third of the virgin bitumen needed to manufacture asphalt. We then mix the recycled bitumen with just a little bit of virgin bitumen and use the mixture to produce new roofing felt of the same quality.

Then we shred it heat it drain off the molten bitumen and sieve away all contaminants like glass fibres wood and stones. Tarpaper recycling separates the components in roofing felt called bitumen and re use it for the production of asphalt. Tarpaper recycling processes roofing felt into new raw material for asphalt production.