Recycled Shingles Used In St. Louis County Road

CMRA member Peerless Landfill supplied recycled shingles used as part of the asphalt pavement for a  two-mile section of a state road, Lindbergh Boulevard, in southern St. Louis county, Missouri. It is the first state road in Missouri to be paved from such a material.

The paving was performed by Pace Construction.

In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dale Behnen, co-owner of Peerless Landfill, recounted the company’s seven-year struggle to convince others, including state transportation officials and paving contractors of the viability of using the shingles in the highway environment.

But eventually their argument of the need to save landfill space and save resources, along with the fact the material could stand up to the engineering requirements while saving money on the paving, won out.

According to Roger Brown, vice president of Pace Construction, “It’s only a matter of time before this becomes the norm, We saved 10 to 15 percent on costs by using the recycled shingles, and that means companies competing with us will probably have to start doing the same thing.”