For Our Future Generations

COOLSOURCE roofing contributes to our environment by using recycled products as well as reducing the amount of energy needed to cool your home.  Please recycle.  Eliminate future landfill debris with a metal roof.

Metal roofing and siding panels are made with the highest recycled content from the most recyclable materials on earth, making them a great choice not only for your use, but also for future generations’ use. Your old car, soup can or washing machine may become part of your new roof! Some states are mandating energy-saving requirements for buildings or giving tax breaks for energy-efficient and energy-saving construction products.

Steel is the world’s, as well as North America’s, most recycled material. In the United States alone, nearly 70 million tons of steel were recycled in 2002. Every ton of steel that is recycled saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone. New steel made with recycled material uses as little as 26% of the amount of energy that would be required to make steel from raw materials extracted from nature. (1)

The Environment

Aluminum is also recycled extensively from both post consumer and post-industrial sources and provides the most valuable component for most municipal recycling efforts.  A survey taken in late 2003 indicated the recycled content of domestically produced, flat rolled products for the building and construction matrix was approximately 80-85%.  In addition, at the end of their long, useful life, aluminum roofing and siding panels can be repeatedly recycled back into similar products with no loss of quality.

Producing aluminum from recycled material requires only 5% of the energy required to product aluminum bauxite ore, and every ton of recycled aluminum saves four tones of bauxite.  Additionally, using recycled aluminum instead of raw materials reduces air pollution such as CO2, Sox and Nox by 95% and water pollution by 97%. (2)

REFERENCES (1) Steel Recycling Institute (www.recycle-steel.org) (2) The Aluminum Association (www.aluminum.org)

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