From ecofriend.org and The Home Crowd>>>
Two Michigan based construction companies are melting down old asphalt shingles to be reused for the construction roadways. To clarify, Asphalt shingles are overlapping tiles used for roofing that contain large quantities of asphalt and fiberglass as their main materials of construction. Asphalt is principally a petroleum product and with asphalt shingles making up two-thirds of American residential roofing market so it’s easy to see why their reuse is essential.
The average house has 2000 sq ft of roofing which when purified will retain 5 tons of reusable asphalt which is equal to the amount from 10 barrels of oil, and they recycle almost 26 tons per day.
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