Why Wind Turbine Blades Are So Hard to Recycle | World Wide Waste

Imagine how much local enviormental pollution from the dust where they shred the blades

The main polluter is the military

What comes out of your arss is more than enough emissions that really,,, ,,,, should be done away with.

The reality of all "renewable" energy is that it costs 10x the energy than fossil fuels.

NO regulation, just make these free to rednecks. I already see used as hog sheds, cattle shoots (specialty fence panels for your city dwellers), easy to sterilize milk station materials. Just drop a trailer full of these by a local feed store and tell locals bring a sawzall and respirator mask, free for the taking. I bet this could be halved for roofing material on a pole barn, that bike shed would store a sawmill pretty nice.

You know what, tell GE to send a trailer to my farm and I'll figure it out myself. I got you!

Supposed to last 20 years, but reality is these blades were only 8-12 years. This discrepancy must have a negative effect on the climate. Plus, don't plants need CO2 to grow and produce O2 for human and animals to breathe?

Old blades would make a border wall!!!

Burning fiberglass is cleaner than coal?

And the turbines are manufactured where?
China 🇨🇳

WOW..
I thought they were Metal.
Thanks for posting,
Chief Ken Bauer, USAF (Ret)

WOW !
Had no ideas they were fibre glass and balsa. Seeing the CAT plow over sand in the blade cemetery - very sad. What causes the blade to deteriorate?

make the blades from aluminum, like airplane wings... 100% recycling...

this doesn't make any sense. crunch the blade to make concrete, fine, fiberglass is used in concrete now. But they are sent to concrete companies TO BURN THEM??? Can't places other than concrete companies burn them??? Glass does not burn, the resin may.
MAYBE, they burn the resin out and use the remaining glass in concrete. That makes sense, but Business Insider didn't get the rest of the story

I thought it would be used in the concrete mix. What’s be added to the mixture for it to burn clean? For now I’m calling BS.

This is what I don't get. Wind turbines are made out of balsa and fiberglass. The same stuff that boats are made out of. Boats that are still on the water from 30s '40s '50s. Because they can be reworked and restored. The wind turbine you can be restored. What is the problem? A lot of those turbines are seeing on the video. Don't have any type of major damage. They're just old. So what is the reasoning that states them having to be replaced every 20 years?

Grind them up and make boats. One yacht for amazon should dispose of a thousand blades. Water storage tanks?

Dude the blades break all the time. They never last 20 years are you kidding?

But if you burn shit in a pit at the back of your house it's a problem and big brother comes knocking.

The one thing I liked the most was the comparison of blade waste to plastic waste (the colossus of waste) “it’s only 1/8th” except plastic waste is done by everything and everybody and blade waste is made by… blades.

In usa, they measure school buses by wind turbine blades, they simply say that a bus is 1/4 wind turbine blade

Sustainable/real 'net zero' can only be attained by recycling the carbon in all the excellent carbon-based chemistry we use from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If we replaced all the petrochemicals we currently used with synthesised-from-atmosphere, the easiest way to dispose of things like turbine blades would be to burn them, as in the video. Burning them would return their carbon for recycling. It would be 'net zero'. The possibly unattractively sensible thing to do for nation-scale energy from wind is to feed decommissioned carbon-based wind turbine components directly into grid-connected incinerator power stations.

Re-use is a great idea but it only delays the inevitable problem, it doesn't solve it. It does reduce the rate at which we consume energy, which makes it more efficient from that viewpoint. There's a risk of people less wealthy than the apparent donors being donated a cheap benefit that brings with it an expensive problem down the road.

Anything we landfill that's made from recycled atmospheric carbon is carbon sequestration - it reverses the human-caused atmospheric carbon pollution that drives climate change. The reversal presented by landfill of carbon-containing waste may be negligible(?) and worse it's dependent on security of deposit, which inevitably falls to the public purse to guarantee. Everlasting landfill can't be part of a sustainable plan. If we're reliant on permanent burying, that's still a finite process.

Since the 70s, hundreds of millions of tons (!) of GRP have been used for pipes, car body parts, stadium roof, building covering, boat huls etc.
The wind turbine rotors have so far accounted for less than 0.1% of this!
In Europe, larger pieces are mostly collected and then used as heating material in cement factories.

Ah yes, more proof that green energy is yet another money laundering scheme. I’d like to inform you it’s not only the blades ending up in the landfill. The whole thing is being disposed of into landfills. And lasting 20 years LMAO. Lithium batteries, solar, and wind turbines are the biggest scam played on the public. Have you seen what these things do to the environment? It’s not pretty.

World wide scam bigger than cancer.

I’m a wind turbine blade technician. This technology is a joke. Waste of money and unsustainable.

Wind turbines, monuments to the stupidity of man.

This whole story is absolutely a lie

Can’t be recycled as most of the so called green energy shit . All toxic waste . There has been a wind turbine or a solar panel location that has ever paid for themselves . These are facts and they are all toxic waste

Ha ha, just wait until Tesla power comes. Free power for the whole flat earth, wind, farms, solar farms, are obsolete, free, tesla power go patriots.

But China and the many US politicians they bought off got rich.

Send them to Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed and David Cicillini will have there citizens pay for ot

Do these wind farms get replaced when they reach their end of life? If not, then the whole thing is a farce. And it's only being done for tax incentives.

Making it into something else doesn't really solve the waste issue. You're just prolonging its life before it goes into a landfill.

Since they are made from wood and resin, the wood will rot away.

use the blades to build border wall between US and Mexico, and then Canada and the US

Aluminum is more recyclable than fiberglass

Waste of time and money not a joke 😂

Has anybody heard of coal fire 🔥🔥 power stations ??
You burn coal it creates power

🌲trees turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen 🇦🇺🔥✅

If it's not broke don't fix it

It makes way more sense to simply keep burning fossil fuels and can this shit.

That construction worker is going to hate life in a few years if he keeps cutting that fiberglass up with no respirator. I would do the job but id have my paint respirator on.

Who knew politions and a big pile of shit have so much in common

Renewable energy is a joke and a lie. There is nothing renewable about solar panels or wind turbines.

My question is why the short shelf life on these blades ? why not let them run till they fail ?

The irony of the statement, "It (Veolia Inc.) gets the blades from G.E. Renewable Energy".
These blades are not economically recyclable.

Put them in Minecraft as a material resource. You will see that there are more than two ways to use them.

They are killing birds, wales and fish. The company promised to grind up the blades in Sweetwater Texas and so far they have not done a thing. They took the money and ran and do not answer the phones. In 2023 the pile of 4,000+ 100 foot blades are still visible from space on google maps. Nice work.

Go green. Go buy a tesla it will solve our problems. It's amazing how we follow like sheep even when the only outcome is someone else's wealth. As long as humans have existed on earth we have been destroying it. It's too late people. We need to put efforts into dealing with climate change instead of trying to stop it.

Some things > the rewards arn't worth the additional problems.

The best way to destroy them , don't build them