Recycled Tire Roof Shingles

These rubber shingles closely resemble the real shingles but are available at a fraction of the price and a fraction of the overall weight.

Recycled tire roof shingles.

Made from 75 recycled materials they re designed to replicate. Rubber is not a new material for roof coverings. Most rubber roof shingles are comprised of between 75 and 95 recycled materials including the re purposed tires. The green mantra is on everyone s minds these days including those in the roofing industry.

I found a company called rubbur concepts that uses a compression mould to turn used tires into replica cedar and slate shingles. With just a kitchen knife. From 250 to 1 000 rubber tires are used in the production of a euroshield roof for an average sized home. Leading companies such as rubbur concepts and ecostar have begun using post consumer recycled tires to manufacture roof shingles.

I m going to be honest here this project overwhelmed me when i started it. Rubber shingles are made of recycled rubber tires plastic bags pvc pipe etc. Scrap material generated during the installation process can be collected and recycled again virtually eliminating environmentally harmful waste. These recycled rubber roof shingles from euroshield are an economic as well as environmentally responsible green building material.

Shingles made from recycled tires. Finally i wanted to know what other methods of tire recycling are out there. In the trade a rubber roof is known as an epdm ethylene propylene diene terpolymer although manufacturers have brand names for their individual products. By the mother earth news editors september october 1976.

It is a birdhouse with recycled tire shingles. The thought of taking a used tire and cutting it apart seemed like it might possibly be one of my worst ideas. Years of research and development led to the creation of a unique formula containing approximately 95 recycled materials for the production of the world s finest synthetic roofing products available on the market today. Yes ones that i cut myself.

I also found that old tires are shredded and used in combination with asphalt to pave roads. And then i just started.