From Roofs to Roads-Recycling Tear Off Shingles

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Richa Martin

According to experts, asphalt shingles make up two-thirds of the roofing market for both new homes and roof replacements. Thousands of asphalt shingle roofs are installed everyday on new and existing roofs across the country. Many people throw the old shingles and scraps in trailers, dumpsters-anywhere they can. Many companies have considered shingle recycling as another benefit to using shingles such as cost, ease of installation and versatility. Rising consciousness of green alternatives has given way to the recycled shinglesboom. These recycled shingles or tear offs, are used primarily in Hot-Mix Asphalt. Shingle recycling is also used in cold climates to make mix for cold patches for quick and economical repairs.

Each year up to 10 million tons of shingles are removed from roofs across the country, if you choose a roofing contractor who recycles, just think, you may be helping pave a road with these recycled shingles! If you are a contractor just thing of the positive exposure your company will receive as word spreads that you are contributing to the green cause.

When you consider your contractor, consider a company that uses the old

tear off shingles

and uses a recycling company that will recycle the shingles. If you find out that your contractor is just dumping the tear off shingles in a dumpster encourage the company to consider the green method by suggesting a shingle recycling plant in your area. If you are a contractor, shingle-recycling plants have made it even easier to

recycled shinglesOne caveat pertains to weather conditions. Because pavements specs vary from state to state as does weather conditions, state departments of transportation have been testing the effects of adding recycled shingles from tear offs for pavement performance in varying types of weather. There has to be just the right mix of shingle material for the best quality performance and longevity of a paved road.The average fee a recycler must charge to cover processing fees is at least $30 per ton. Green experts say that the differential between the charge of the recycling facility and the landfill tip fee must be large enough to provide an economic incentive to generators to change their attitude and practice of landfill disposal.For more Information Visit our site: alamorecyclecenters.com/Article Source: ArticleRich.com

Submitted by: Ryan Letterman

Media today is constantly bombarding our children with images and messages of how they should act and how they should dress. Even Disney shows like Hannah Montana that we assume would be fine for our children to watch, portray a girl that has a hard time hearing the word no and often dresses much older than her age would warrant. While they do try to put a lesson of some kind in these TV shows, it still sends our children the message that they should look or act like the TV star.

Kids today need someone they can look up to, someone who can set a real example for them. While TV stars may be more popular, and are certainly in the news and tabloids more, they often are not the best examples for our kids. Our kids need to be introduced to ordinary everyday heroes like firefighters and police officers as people to look up to.

Police officers and firefighters are just ordinary people, but to anyone who has used their services whether voluntarily or not, will tell you different. To these people, they are heroes. They have dedicated years of their lives to keeping us safe no matter where in the country we live. There efforts have made a huge difference in the lives of many of us.

Several officers and firefighters upon leaving the force will look for ways to continue to serve the public, public service is in their blood and they don t want to give it up even though they are no longer part of the force. One outlet for their skills where some choose to use their training and experience is to produce emergency vehicles for the government. Such vehicles include trailers used by FEMA, SWAT vehicles, mobile crime labs and many other vehicle types.

While a life spent working on the police force or fire station can be a career and life well spent for many, the step to create emergency vehicles takes a life well spent a step even further. Activities such as this are more than enough to classify any one of these men and women as a home town hero. There are others who can classify themselves as heroes for very different reasons.

The charitable giving that so many of these individuals have done over the years can without a doubt make a difference in many lives. They support children in Africa, charities in their own communities, and many children s care and research centers. They may not be able to cure cancer or provide everything someone might need, but they give what they can and encourage everyone they know to do the same.

A good role model doesn t have to be someone you see on TV every other day or who is constantly in the tabloids. In fact, as police officers and firefighters have shown us, sometimes it is the ordinary people who make the best role models. Role models for our kids should simply be someone who does their best and gives their all every day, and that s what these ordinary everyday heroes do.

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