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Recycled shingles used in St. Louis County road.


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 member Peerless Landfill has supplied recycled shingles shingles: see herpes zoster.
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 or herpes zoster

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 used as part of the asphalt pavement for a two-mile section of Lindbergh Boulevard, a state road in southern St. Louis County St. Louis County is the name of multiple counties in the United States:
  • St. Louis County, Missouri
  • St. Louis County, Minnesota
; Mo. It is the first state road in Missouri to be paved from such a material.

Pace Construction did the paving.

In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri. , 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 the argument about saving landfill space and resources 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."
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Title Annotation:Peerless Landfill
Publication:Construction & Demolition Recycling
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2005
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