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April 26th, 2008 — Green Roofs, Roofing Products

For citizens of Vancouver BC the beginning of the year brought them a landfill ban from Metro Vancouver Regional District. They were no longer able to dispose of used passenger or truck tires.

Until an unimplemented tire recycling plan is in place the tires have no place to go. To help ease the over abudancy and possibly deter illegal dumping, a Vancouver BC roofing company decided to take action with a free used tire collection service — The Big Eco Tire Toss program.

Penfolds Roofing put on a two-day door-to-door tire collection blitz
April 21st & 22nd. The successful free tire pick-up service was well recieved and they used their time to educate people on the importance of tire recycling and what types of products can be made from them.

“The fact we will arrive at their home and collect up to six used tires free of charge has generated a great response.”, said Penfolds Roofing president Ken Mayhew.

Eco-friendly Rubber Shakes and ShinglesOne product made from recycled tires are rubber shakes or shingles. Penfolds installs a brand of rubber shake called EcoRoof. Their literature says the eco-friendly rubber shakes are tough, practically indistructable, moss resistant, lightweight, leak proof & mostly maintenance free.

For every roof replaced with EcoRoof Rubber Shakes, 450 old tires are removed from the landfill. Annually, that’s about 20,000 tires diverted into a high-quality, lasting product.

Mayhew says that Penfolds plans to make The Big Eco Tire Toss program an annual April event.

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  1. JackKeeton on May 17, 2008 8:12 am

    I am in the roofing business in Texas. There has been several mfgs. that have tried roofing with old tires. I don’t believe they are still in business today. My main question is this… Once you gather all these tires, what do you do with them? Can you deliver them to the Eco plant and exchange them for shingles at a discount? If you know the answer please e-mail me… Hell we got lots of old tires in Texas…lol

  2. Roof Info Staff on May 17, 2008 3:33 pm

    Jack,

    The manufacturer mentioned in this article is in British Columbia, Canada. Transporting tires that far kind of defeats the purpose of eco-friendliness.

    Probably the best place to start is a little closer to home. Try researching a solution at this webpage Scrap-Tire Recycling - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

  3. JackKeeton on May 27, 2008 7:01 am

    I was wondering what the roofing company did with all the old tires. I have a roofing company in Ft.Worth and we have a lot of old tires here as well.

  4. Roof Info Staff on May 27, 2008 4:33 pm

    Jack,

    I think Penfolds has a tire recycling facility somewhere close to them, but far enough away that the people in town would find it inconvenient — thus the pickup blitz.

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