After being gathered from a locus of 100 km around Hamburg, the felt is first prepared in a recycling center then transported a mere 40 km to LГ¤gerdorf to be treated in the plantвЂ™s cement kilns.Д«efore reaching this final destination, it undergoes a specialized shredding pretreatment process which ensures the fuel material is of appropriate quality for use in our kilns. Our LГ¤gerdorf cement plant in Northern Germany has been co-processing hazardous roofing felts since 2007. Our teams in Germany worked to expand the range of available treatment solution(s) for this sticky black waste stream in accordance with European waste hierarchy: co-processing! This process allows us to simultaneously recycle its mineral content and recover the materialвЂ™s energy in our cement plant kilns.

In light of these limited options, you canвЂ™t stop Geocycle from proposing a sound and cost effective alternative. Very few 'traditional' waste management solutions exist for roofing felt: one consists of using it as raw material in street construction and the other requires high-temperature thermal treatment. The stream is usually a mixture of old coal tar-based felts (which were banned decades ago due to hazardous content) and new, non-hazardous polymer bitumen-based roofing felts. Roofing felt is a branch of the Construction & Demolition Waste family thatвЂ™s difficult to sort and treat in a sustainable way.

Old roofing felt asphalt texture