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Asphalt Shingle Resources

Asphalt Shingles LinkUp partner American Roofing Recyclers recycles asphalt shingle waste at its Snohomish, WA facility.

The following is a list of resources intended to give more information about asphalt shingle recycling. Organizations listed are not necessarily affiliated with or endorsed by King County.

Web Sites

• ShingleRecycling.org (external)
  This site provides up-to-date information on asphalt shingle recycling activities across the U.S. See Missouri , Georgia and South Carolina, which have specifications, and Maine, which has a beneficial use permit for tear-off shingles. See Minnesota, Indiana, Arkansas, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Texas , Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin for recent or current research activity for tear-off shingles in HMA.
• Construction & Demolition Recycling – Asphalt Shingles (external)
• From Roofs to Roads (PDF, external), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• University of Washington: Green Roads (external)
• Washington Asphalt and Pavement Association (external)
• National Asphalt Roadmap (external)

Articles

• Asphalt shingles recycling is gaining momentum (external), Julie Gevrenov, Professional Roofing – Apr. 2008
• High oil prices improve asphalt shingle recycling market (external), Irwin Rapoport, American Recycler – Jan. 2008
• Environmental issues associated with asphalt shingle recycling(external), Timothy Townsend, Jon Powell and Chad Xu, WasteCap Wisconsin, Appeared in C&D World / CMRA – Jan./Feb. 2008
• C&D World: Shingle Minded (external), Jan. 2007
• Mixed Messages (external), Dan Krivit, C&D Recycling Magazine – July 2006

Reports, Studies & Guidance

• 2008 CD&I Recycling Project: Shingles Recycling White Paper (PDF, 1.16 MB), Twin City metropolitan region’s Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency – May, 2008
• Recycling Tear-Off Asphalt Shingles: Best Practices Guide (PDF, 2.37 MB), Construction Materials Recycling Association – Oct. 2007
• Environmental Issues Associated with Asphalt Shingle Recycling (PDF, 705 k), Construction Materials Recycling Association – Oct. 2007
• Recycled Tear-off Shingles Road Construction Demonstration in the Town of Hassan (PDF, 1.78 MB), Dan Krivit & Associates – May 2007
• Speaker Presentations from National Workshop on Materials and Energy Conservation for Hot-Mix Asphalt (external) – Nov. 2006
• Overcoming the Barriers to Asphalt Shingle Recycling: Final Report for the Recycled Materials Resource Center Project 22 (PDF, 963 K) – Feb. 2005
• Tear-off Asphalt Shingles Recycling Pilot (external), U.S. EPA – 2005
• Use of Roofing Shingle Waste in HMA (PDF, 1.74 MB), Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey – 2004

State & Federal Standards

• Provisional AASHTO Standards:
  • Standard Specification for the Use of Recycled Asphalt Shingle as an Additive in Hot Mix Asphalt (PDF, 33 K)
  • Standard Recommended Practice for Design Considerations when Using Recycled Asphalt Shingles in New Hot Mix Asphalt (PDF, 53 K)
• Missouri: Substitution of Asphalt Shingles MSP03-01B (PDF, external)
• South Carolina (PDF, external)
• More on individual states (external)

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