Boomers Fix Stuff !! What have you repaired ?

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Any links to that claim? I know a lot get recycled because fibreglass is a valuable resource for producing a lot of things, including making new wind turbine blades  https://designedconscious.com/plastics-i...iberglass/

T1 Terry

Most are currently made of carbon fibre not fibreglass.
The quantities of waste quoted are for the USA only.

"Albers notes that every one-kilowatt of wind power needs ten kilograms of WT blade materials (10 kg/kW or 10 t/MW), predicts that there will be nearly 50,000 tonnes of blade waste in 2020 and that this number will exceed 200,000 tonnes in 2034 (Albers, 2009). Andersen adopts Albers’ blade material demand figure of 10 t/MW and predicts that the amount of blade material that will need to be recycled annually is 400,000 tonnes between 2029 and 2033. It will increase to 800,000 tonnes per year by 2050 (Andersen et al., 2014)."

"Presently, most WT blade waste is sent to landfill, but this is not an environmentally benign solution, and indeed many European Union countries have forbidden the landfilling of composite waste (Pickering, 2006)."

Wind turbine blade waste in 2050

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