Recycle your shingles
with Heritage Roofing
Recycle your shingles
with Heritage Roofing
Shingle Recycling
Keep shingles out of the landfill
Did you know more than a million tonnes of asphalt-based roofing materials end up in Canadian landfills every year? This isn’t just a waste of landfill space – it also wastes precious metal and petroleum resources that can be used on pavement, farms, and other secondary industries. At Heritage Roofing, we do everything possible to make sure your old roofing materials are diverted away from the landfill and recycled. In the process, we save energy, lower building costs, create jobs and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
A second life for shingles
In Canada alone, old shingles have been repurposed for new applications for more than 15 years. They can also be broken down and reused for up to 20% of new shingle production, significantly reducing material and energy needs. Some of these uses include:
Hot mix asphalt (improves pavement performance and reduces cracking and cost)
Cold patch material (fills potholes and cracks)
Road aggregate for unpaved roads (reduces dust, noise, and gravel displacement while increasing road durability)
Temporary road surfaces
Building up roads/trails
Mud elimination on farms and ranches
The average roof weighs between 3-4 tons, and up to 90% of it can be recycled. Diverting that material from the landfill and finding innovative new ways to reuse it is one of the key drivers of our operations, and at Heritage Roofing we are always looking for ways to create a better world – not only for our direct clients, but for everyone else, too.
