Cary Black is the chairman of the Technical Committee, Chemical Fabrics & Film Association, Vinyl Roofing Division. To read the white paper “Avoiding the Landfill: The Recycling of Vinyl Roof Membranes,” visit www.vinylroofs.org.
Increasing raw material costs, higher landfill tipping fees, legislation to restrict disposal of construction materials - and an architectural community that demands the lightest environmental footprint achievable - all are leading toward the mainstreaming of post-consumer recycling and the day when specifiers routinely call for recycling of roofs at the end of their service life.