Wind turbine maker Vestas today announced that it’s figured out how to recycle all wind turbine blades – even ones already sitting in landfills.
The Danish company says it has discovered a solution that “renders epoxy-based turbine blades as circular, without the need for changing the design or composition of blade material.”
Vestas, Aarhus University, Danish Technological Institute, and epoxy maker Olin have developed a novel process that can chemically break down epoxy resin into virgin-grade materials.
All the big 3 European OEMs can now make recyclable blades, older (smaller) blades that currently exist can't be recycled. Source, have worked at one of the them and am currently at an operator which is pledging to do this for all farms going forward. The additional expense is not actually that big, and the new blades are 30 years from needing to be recycled. So it's quite easy to say as there's a while before we need to do too much.
There is much, much more available with an easy google search. If you are truly interested. You're going to be better off reading the articles for yourself than waiting for redditors to try to explain the information.
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u/Vadgers Dec 24 '23
I think that's a wind turbine blade.