Environmental accountability is your accountability as a enterprise proprietor — RoofersCoffeeShop®

By Dani Sheehan. 

Hear from trade consultants as they talk about EPA roofing laws and why it’s best to perceive how roofing practices impression the atmosphere. 

The roofing trade is uniquely positioned in affecting constructive change in sustainability and different practices that impression the atmosphere. In the most recent Espresso Conversations episode, sponsored by IB Roof Techniques, trade consultants sit down to debate essential roofing laws to assist your corporation keep compliant in its environmental accountability. Jason Stanley, CEO of IB Roof Techniques, joins Tammy Corridor, Trent Cotney and Deb Mazol for an essential and fascinating dialogue of the most recent EPA laws related to the roofing trade. 

There’s been an enormous push to maneuver towards sustainable options inside roofing, and general, it is a good factor. Nonetheless, RCS Influencer and Associate of Adams and Reese LLP, Trent Cotney, says that a few of these laws can impression enterprise, and it’s paramount that you simply keep in contact with the updates to make sure your organization can accommodate any mandatory adjustments. We’d like to concentrate on the dialog taking place round sustainability in order that we are able to work collectively to suit into our enterprise wants. If we don’t, we gained’t be capable of discover a good steadiness or have a voice within the adjustments. 

One such instance of working with the EPA and a few of these laws is the dialogue round PVC. As Jason explains, merchandise can obtain an EPD from the EPA, which is an environmental product declaration. It seems to be on the complete life journey of your product from uncooked supplies to transportation to manufacturing to job website, all the way in which to the tip of its life. He continues, “PVC has a glowing rating with regards to their EPD. After which we did some work to exhibit with a third-party firm that you could validate that PVC turns into carbon-neutral all by itself after being put in.”  

Seemingly out of nowhere, a couple of yr in the past they had been beneath scrutiny with the EPA desirous to deem PVC a hazardous product. Deb, engaged on the D.C. crew for the Nationwide Roofing Contractors Affiliation (NRCA), says the trade shortly bought collectively to research the problem and had been capable of finding the foundation reason behind the accusation. The ultimate ruling will are available April 2024, however Deb says, “I seemed up the EPA’s feedback they usually had been very sturdy towards any dedication that PVC can be thought-about a hazardous waste. I be ok with that. We got here collectively shortly throughout the trade to supply feedback to the EPA, significantly on how this may have an effect on our enterprise. PVC isn’t just in roofing, nevertheless it’s in toys, electronics, medical system packaging, even straws.” 

The EPA has a rulemaking course of that lets you present feedback. Deb says, “They need to hear from us to verify they don’t decide that finally ends up working counter to their preliminary targets.” As Tammy of CFS Roofing and chair of NRCA’s authorities affairs mentions, we’re very lucky within the trade to have a big authorities affairs committee throughout the NRCA. She emphasizes the function of contractors: “That’s how contractors must community, as a result of all of us should be members. All of us should have our voice heard. All of us have to interact. We begin on the prime after which we trickle down with the spiderweb to maintain that initiative [moving forward].” 

Learn the transcript, Hearken to the podcast episode or Watch the webinar to dive into different sustainability points within the roofing trade and how one can be part of the dialog!