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0 pointsflor1s5y ago0 comments

Do you have a source for blades often being made of toxic material? The Bloomberg article a poster linked above makes it seem like it's completely safe to store the blades in landfill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

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jabl5y ago

They are usually made of fibreglass or carbon fibre. Somewhat nasty and almost impossible to recycle, but also fairly inert.

Of all the environmental challenges humanity faces, landfilling old wind turbine blades is quite a long way down the list.

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