Industry Partnership Succeeds in Using Mushrooms to Decarbonize Construction Waste
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lendlease, Rubicon Technologies Inc., Mycocycle, and Rockwood Sustainable Solutions announced the completion of a partnered pilot involving used asphalt shingles, mushrooms and mycoremediation technology to reduce construction and demolition waste in order to produce a sustainable and reusable product to create a more circular economy.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 11 to 13 million tons of asphalt shingles end up in landfills each year, where they take upwards of 300 years to break down. After seeing the large percentage of waste that was generated by used asphalt roofing shingles from a recent reroofing project at their Fort Campbell Army installation in Kentucky, Lendlease, Rubicon, Mycocycle and Rockwood Sustainable Solutions proposed a solution to reuse the material in a new capacity.