By Michael Bushnell
Northeast News
December 1, 2011

If you’ve driven by the mountain of roofing shingles near the corner of Winner Road and Ewing any time in the past six months and wondered what was or wasn’t going on there, wonder no more.

Go Green Recycling, the former tenant, vacated the property earlier this summer leaving a mountain of trash, roofing shingles and litter on the site that prompted numerous environmental concerns from neighbors in the Sheffield area. According to Spencer Gregg of Complete Real Estate, the owner of the property, the short and extremely twisted legacy of Go Green Recycling and one of its principals, Ron Yoder, is history.

“We secured a court judgment in October against Go Green, Mr. Yoder and his partner Robert Casey which allows us access to our property to begin the clean-up process,” Gregg said.

According to court documents, the execution of the judgment will be stayed until Dec. 16 and any income derived from the processing of the roofing material will go toward satisfying the judgment against Yoder, Casey and their company.

“Unfortunately, the price of shingles has dropped drastically over the last few months, so there’s not near the money in that 20,000 ton pile of material there was earlier this summer,” Gregg said.

The market for asphalt shingles fell from roughly $17 per ton last summer to around $6 per ton in November.

C.S. Carey, a Kansas City, Kan., based land clearance contractor has begun the arduous process of clearing the property of material this week and a shingle grinding company from St. Joseph, Mo., has been hired to clean up the lot and process the material and trash.

“We’ve got a couple of parties interested in leasing the space once we get it cleaned up, but we won’t have another operation like this on this site – too many headaches,” Gregg said. “We’ll be in here for about three or four months depending on grinding schedules. Broom clean when we get done.”