Just when business is taking off, a local construction recycling company says it may lose it all.

A state agency is considering a rule change that the company – Glacier Recycle - says it couldn't survive, and a lot of jobs are on the line

When a load of old pallets gets dumped at the Glacier Recycle yard, a major process begins.

Workers strip the load of anything that is not wood. The pallets are then tossed into the sorting bin, where more impurities are removed. While giant jaws crush the wood, magnets removed the nails.

What's left is a valuable pile of wood chips that will be sent off to become recycled paper.

Over at another part of the yard, workers sort through the shingle pile. There's money there too.

"These shingles when they're manufactured are about 40 percent liquid asphalt. Liquid asphalt these days is going for about $600 a ton," said owner John Yeasting.

Today's old shingles are ground up to become tomorrow's asphalt roads. Almost everything has recycle value - plastics, sheetrock, scrap metal.

Glacier owners say they have created a facility capable of recycling 80 percent of the construction materials received.

But the State Utilities and Transportation Commission recently found Glacier was hauling its un-recyclable leftovers to a private landfill. Because of that it is now considering rules that could stop Glacier from hauling anything into or out of its facilities.

"And if that happens, that would put us out of business and send hundreds of thousands of tons back into the landfill," Yeasting said.

Backers of the rule change say it is designed to prevent scam artists from charging companies recycling fees, then just dumping the stuff. But Glacier worries its good work could get caught tossed out with the bad.

Meetings are scheduled for early next month and later this summer to discuss the proposed rule changes.