CMRA member Commercial Paving & Recycling, Scarborough, ME, has been named Business Recycler of the Year by the Maine Resource Recovery Association.
The company processes many materials, including wood, gypsum, asphalt roofing shingles, and glass for reuse in manufactured products for construction and paving markets. The company won the award for innovations and success in C&D.
According to John Adelman, with the company, they started as a paving industry. The last 12 years we have gotten more heavily into recycling different products. We do these through various permits, licenses which no one else can do.
We can take contaminated soil, bottom ash, sandblast grit, roof shingles, wood, glass, brick, cement and turn it into various products.
The company operates two transfer stations in Maine, one in Kennebunkport, the other in Scarborough.
Work throughout New England. We also established a trade program. 70 towns in Massachusetts.
Last year the company took in about 300,000 tons of C&D material from the New England area, with most coming from Maine. Of that amount, the company estimates about 92 percent is recycled into another product.