Recycling Roofing Felt

Roofing adhesives may be hazardous and you should use protective wear when handling.

Recycling roofing felt.

With bitumenmix 60 kilograms of co2 are saved per every produced ton of 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. Tarpaper recycling processes roofing felt into new raw material for asphalt production. Most of this material comes from roofing felt.

Whether it is roofing shingles or a roofing felt you can always give them to a recycling company. Via a number of waste management companies in sweden tarpaper recycling collects tar paper for recycling. Use your creativity and make something to decorate your living room with. Tarpaper recycling separates the components in roofing felt called bitumen and re use it for the production of asphalt.

Roofing felt waste has until now been deposited on land fillings or has been combusted. 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. The alternative option is to make an art piece out of them. The name of the end product is bitumenmix and it can replace approximately one third of the virgin bitumen needed to manufacture asphalt.

Then we shred it heat it drain off the molten bitumen and sieve away all contaminants like glass fibres wood and stones. The material can also come in the form of production waste from factories producing waterproofing. The primary reason for reusing roofing felt waste is bitumen a refined oil product.