What do you do to recycle on the job?

What do you do to recycle on the job?>>>

Sorry Sarah, i love landfills...oooops :dry:>>>

The metals mostly some EPDM for fire wood covers and such.>>>

We seperate the shingles from everything else and it is all ground up and sent to be re-used by a big paving contractor. A couple thousand tons here in the last year. The same company runs similiar plants though much larger in 3 or 4 other Michigan cities. In Lansing I guess they ground the shingles and also got 47,000 pounds of nails and metal at the same time. A very good program. If yuou keep everything seperated: ie. paper and junk it is cheaper than the transfer station. By 70% so it is win win for us.>>>

Sarah Said: What do you do to recycle on the job?

We recycle everything that can be. The only problem is the recycling companies do not make it easy. We have won awards in our area for our recycling habits none the less!>>>

Same as Old School. Same company has an operation in our community. Customers are responding very positively to our efforts to recycle. It's another opportunity to differentiate.>>>

Since the price of metals dropped, my recycle pile is just getting bigger. I will organize it and one of these days it will go back up. How much the money will be worth at that time is in question. We will see. At least the cost of new metal has come down!>>>

Recycling fees, city and county fees are relitively the same price where I work and live....we are required to seperate every thing so there is no incentive to recycle. Only thing that is worth saving are soft lead and that price has dropped from .25 to .12 cents a pound.>>>

Hi,

We recycle cardboard, metal, slate, plastic, paper, magazines, and tree branches.

There is a place near us that does shingles. They make it so hard to do that we actually can not recycle them.>>>

The company that Andy and I work with is great. They bend over backwards for us. For me anyway. I try and give them clean loads. I want to see the chingles keep out of the landfill. What a waste to throw out good materials.>>>

We recycle aluminum, other metals and cardboard. The metals we haul to the scrap yard ourself. We have a dumpster for the cardboard. As far as I know there are no outlets for recycling shingle. Any wood is used as fuel in the woodburner in the shop. For the rare load of ballast - there is a stone company that will take it sometimes and if they don't we just look for the "clean fill wanted" signs.

I keep looking at the Humane Society to breed a shingle-eating dog.>>>

We recycle all metals except steel, paper, plastic and roofers.>>>

Arrrrrr, well shiver me monays ther, we says for shure. Ole Jack was just the other day atellin tha motley crew of scurvey dogs an wetbacks. Laddies,we are throwin away a small fortune of tha coin,we are for shurrre, by not adoin some of tha recycicallling,I sez. Jus look at all them beer cans that we got scattered in tha back of Ole Jacks truck, an all them we leave behind tha bushes an stuffed down tha victums....er....customers chimney ther. Ole jack has become eeeco friendly ther, he has for shure. Course, it was sorta hard to git them wets ta unerstan Ole Jack, we did have to use a lot of tha sine language. Them lads don't talk much of tha English ye'no. You know...like beero canno in the sacko, then a nice pop on tha back of tha head. They ketch on, reel quick like. ar ar ar ar ar ar ar

Ole Jack...signnin out...til he can be of help nex time, argh.>>>

we save all metal to recycle. slate is used for clean fill. i don't know of anybody recycling shingles in our area>>>

I kept 241 cubic yards of iso out of a landfill by saving what some boneheaded consulant demanded be torn off to make himself look good, and sold it one of my good customers at a rate that saved them almost $10,000 off the cost of new insulation.

I look for opportunities, but they can be hard to find.

All metals are recycled, and the formen split the proceeds.>>>

Hi Copperman,

They are in Lansdale. They will put a dumpster at each job. But they will not put one at my shop? I want the biggest dumpster at my shop. They will get a cleaner load, and save on time and fuel. It just does not make sense to them.

http://eastcoastshinglerecyclers.com/Homeowners.html>>>