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Canadian company recycles shingles for road applications.


Canadian recycler Halifax C&D Recycling Ltd. has received $67,000 in funding from the Resource Recovery Fund Board (RRFB RRFB Robert Randolph and the Family Band
RRFB Resource Recovery Fund Board, Inc.
) of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia (nō`və skō`shə) [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography
 to help it purchase equipment to process asphalt shingles, according to a report in the Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia For other uses, see Halifax.
Halifax, Nova Scotia may refer to any of the following:
  • Halifax Regional Municipality, capital of Nova Scotia, Canada
, Canada).

The company developed a process for separating sand and asphalt of shingles shingles: see herpes zoster.
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 from the paper portion in 2005, according to the report. The resulting product is used by Ocean Contractors in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Dartmouth (2001 pop.: 65,741[0]), founded in 1750, is a community and planning area of the Halifax Regional Municipality, a provincially designated Metropolitan Area, and a former city in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. , in hot-mix asphalt paving.

One of the company's owners, Dan Chaissie, tells the Chronicle Herald that the sand-asphalt product replaces 2 to 3 percent of the new liquids in hot mix.

The funding from the RRFB helped with the purchase of $75,000 of equipment at Halifax C&D Recycling, according to the report. Funds are also available for research and pilot projects that divert materials.

More information is available at www.rrfb.com.
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Title Annotation:COMMODITIES
Publication:Construction & Demolition Recycling
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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