Monday, April 11, 2011

Shades of green


No wonder people accumulate stuff on their land or toss it into a convenient rural revine. Doing right by Mother Earth is no easy task.

It took me weeks of phone calls and e-mails before I finally struck green and found a way out of the landfill for the asphalt shingles.





Heritage Environmental Shingles in Shakopee said they’d take a piece of Loveless if I paid them around $25 -- the price per ton -- for the honor. My checkbook is at the ready.

Our tax dollars are at work to try to inspire roofers and builders to recyle more. In Minnesota, the shingles get ground up and used with hot-mix asphalt to pave roads.

Now, we’re literally taking the love on the road.

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