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Solid Waste Management
 Plan Amendment
Morris County, New Jersey
Response to the January 2006 New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Solid Waste Management and Sludge Management State Plan Update - March 2007
7. Materials That are No Longer Designated to be Source Separated and Recycled
Upon certification of this Plan Amendment by the Department, the
material listed below shall no longer be a mandated or designated recyclable
material.
Asphalt Roofing Shingles
This material is no longer mandated for several reasons. Currently no
known market exists for asphalt roofing shingles within a reasonable distance of Morris
County. In 1993 when this material was first mandated, ReClaim, a market, was available. Based
on tonnage for source separated, asphalt roofing shingles received at the Morris County
transfer stations, it appears that ReClaim was out of business by 1997. The county had no
market for two years, and in July 1998 Tilcon New Jersey was approved by the NJDEP to accept
asphalt roofing shingles for recycling. The MCMUA began accepting the shingles once again at
its transfer stations in January 1999. By November 2002, Tilcon was no longer accepting the
asphalt roofing shingles.
The MCMUA was accepting source separated asphalt roofing shingles at
both of its transfer stations for recycling until November 2002. Below is the total tonnage
received at those facilities since 1993.
| 1993 - 2,252 tons |
1998 - 0 tons |
2003 - 0 tons |
| 1994 - 343 tons |
1999 - 868 tons |
2004 - 0 tons |
| 1995 - 606 tons |
2000 - 1,244 tons |
2005 - 0 tons |
| 1996
- 874 tons |
2001 - 1,514 tons |
2006 - 0 tons |
| 1997 - 0 tons |
2002 - 1,082 tons |
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Due to the fact that a market is no longer readily available
and the apparent amount of tonnage recycled as a result of asphalt roofing shingles being
a mandated material was not that high, relatively speaking, asphalt roofing shingles is no
longer a mandated recyclable material in Morris County.
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