• Maine has a Beneficial Use Determination Policy (Chapter 418 of its Solid Waste Rules) and
one shingle recycling facility. This facility accepts shingles from all New England states.
Shingles are accepted, inspected, and processed into appropriate sizes, and then may
become road products such as hot-mix or cold-patch asphalt, meeting Maine Department of
Transportation specifications.27
• Massachusetts currently allows manufacturers’ scrap shingles in hot-mix asphalt pavement.
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MassDOT is researching the use of post-consumer scrap, and evaluating price and
performance in comparison to virgin asphalt.
29 The Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection (MADEP) has issued Beneficial Use Determination permits for
facilities that recycle asphalt shingles. There are currently three in the Commonwealth.
MADEP has developed a post-consumer asphalt shingles work group, and is working with
transportation agencies to develop specifications for post-consumer asphalt singles in road
applications. A waste ban for asphalt shingles is under discussion.
• New Hampshire’s Department of Transportation, in its 2010 Annual Report, states that it “is
the first state in the Northeast to specifically allow recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) in the
NHDOT’s asphalt mixes.”30 In 2010, the state published a document laying out the
specifications for RAS in hot mix asphalt, and developed an asbestos management plan for
approved asphalt shingles facilities31 New Hampshire currently has approved two facilities.
• New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has a Beneficial Use Determination
Policy.32 The New Jersey Department of Transportation, in its paving specifications
(901.05.06 and 902.02.02), allows for Ground Bituminous Shingle Scrap.33
• New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has Beneficial Use Regulations
(BUD.)34 There are four permits approved for use of asphalt shingles in a paving application.
New York has two shingle recycling facilities.
• Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection uses a General Permit system for
beneficial use of various wastes, including shingles. Currently there are two General Permits,
WMGR079 and WMGR039, for use of manufacturer’s scrap and tear-offs or post-consumer
shingles for hot-mix and cold patch asphalt, a component of sub-base material, as dust control
on rural roads when applied with a binder, or as a component or ingredient in fuel used in
cement or manufacturing or in the generation of electricity or steam. General Permit
WMGR116 allows for waste asphalt shingles as alternative fuels.35 The Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation currently has a specification allowing only for the use of