TOLEDO -- Owens Corning announced significant advancements in the use of recycled content, end-of-life solutions and the company’s collaboration with the recycling industry.

Recycled Content
With an additional ten percent recycled content, Owens Corning residential and commercial insulation products in North America now are made of at least half recycled glass content (minimum 50 percent). In addition to keeping glass out of landfills, using recycled content also helps reduce Owens Corning’s energy use and CO2 emissions as melting recycled glass requires significantly less energy.

Additionally, Owens Corning’s Cultured Stone and ProStone brands are the first manufactured stone veneer products to receive third party validation for recycled content. UL Environment Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories, provided the third party testing and validation for a minimum 35 percent recycled content.

End-of-Life Recycling
Owens Corning’s Roofing business developed a program to simplify shingle recycling for its Preferred Roofing Contractors. Through the program, Owens Corning connects roofing contractors with convenient drop-offs and recycling centers run by Heritage Environmental Services. Heritage, the largest privately-held environmental services company in the U.S., will provide dedicated, convenient drop-off centers that will recycle and process shingle tear-offs for the materials to be used in paving.

Working with the Recycling Industry
In addition to the strategic alliance with Heritage for shingle recycling, Owens Corning worked in Kansas City, Mo., to help create America’s first self-contained metropolitan recycling system. Through a strategic alliance, Owens Corning will purchase recycled glass from the new recycling processor Ripple Glass and use the recycled materials in its local facility producing fiberglass insulation.

For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com/sustainability.