Roofs To Roads

We have become the first in the province to recycle shingles. Advanced Roofing Ltd. hope to recycle the 300 tons of asphalt shingles that they regularly put into the landfill each year. Once the shingles are deposited they are then buried.

Justin Fall, president of Advanced Roofing said they want to be a company that reduces their carbon footprint and he figured this was the best way to do it.

“I saw how much we put into the landfill every year and I have seen in other provinces where they did do this and I thought someone has to start doing this in Saskatchewan otherwise our landfills will be mounding with shingles (when they) could be reused for something else,” said Fall.

Roofs To Roads will be recycling the shingles by grinding up the wasted shingles into a finer product that can be re-used for asphalt mixes or for loose aggregate. The company plans to give the ground up shingles to anyone that can use them.

The Advanced Roofing president hopes to get the city and other roofing companies involved in recycling their shingles in the future.