We Recycle Your Shingles!
Recycling shingles will reduce landfill growth, decrease the country’s dependence on foreign oil, reuse previously mined aggregate, produce better roads, save money, create new jobs and generate new revenue for the state. Recycling will also save roofers money since it costs half as much to recycle the material than it does to send it to a landfill.
How Do I Get Started?
Contact Accurate and speak to a live industry expert to help determine the most effecient and cost saving process.
Save up to 50% on your disposal expenses.
With our many locations for asphalt shingle recycling dumping, determine which of our locations is most suitible for your schedule.
Currently 4 locations throughout Tri-State area.
Once you are ready to dump, bring in your clean asphalt shingle tear-offs for recycling.
Cut your disposal expenses and help lessen the burden on our
landfills...It's that EASY!
Company Background
Accurate Recycling is proud to announce its newest venture. A roof shingle recycling company that specializes in recycling residential tear-off asphalt shingles. We assist commercial haulers, landfill and transfer station operators, and roofing contractors with recycling options for residential shingles. Accurate has contracted with end-users who are properly permitted and can recycle and reuse while diverting landfill waste. Accurate Recycling's management team has 4 generations of working experience in the recycling and solid waste industry.
Accurate Recycling is a company founded with environmental concerns at heart. Our intention is to be the industry leader in the recycling of tear-off asphalt shingles. It is estimated that there is on average 66 lbs of tear-off asphalt shingles generated per capita per annum. To put that more simply, a city the size of 1 million would generate around 33,000 tons or 66 million pounds! That is a huge landfill footprint and an exceptional environmental impact!
Why Recycle Shingles?
As landfill availability decreases and tipping fees increase, solid waste generators are becoming more interested in finding alternative ways of managing shingle waste. This site discusses the recycling of asphalt roofing shingles, or "composition shingles" including shingle quantities, composition, processing, products, and products made with recycled asphalt roofing shingles.
Asphalt shingle scrap can be used in a variety of products, including:
- Asphalt pavement
- Aggregate base and subbase
- Cold patch for potholes, sidwalks, driveways, etc.
- Road and ground cover
- New roofing
- Fuel oil
Processing Steps
To prepare shingles for use in new products, the shingles must be ground to a specified size, and contaminants removed.
Grinding
Grinding may be easier in the winter when the asphalt is more brittle. If the shingles
begin to stick together in hot weather, or from the heat of the equipment, spraying
with water or blending with sand or gravel may help.
Sizing
Depending on the equipment used, primary grinding may yield 2" or 3"-minus size
pieces. Secondary grinding may be required to make smaller pieces if needed; for
example, aggregate base may require 3/4"-minus, and asphalt pavement may require
1/2"-minus or 1/4"-minus.
Grading
Depending on the use, the shingles may have to be sieved after grinding, to conform
to grading requirements.
Contaminants
For virtually all uses, contaminants must be removed. Possible contaminants may
include:
Wood, which sometimes accompanies shingles when the plywood is also replaced in a re-roof job. Wood can be removed by hand, or floated off in a water flotation unit.
