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Your first two sentences contradict each other (turbine blades are toxic but they’re “just glass and resin”). Glass and resin are fairly inert.

Wind turbine blades aren’t toxic. They can be land filled (like almost all waste that isn’t incinerated or plasma gasified), or, if you want to recycle them, they can be used as feedstock for cement kilns or crushed into insulation pellets (which requires a supply chain configured to do so).

https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/wind-turbine-blades-rec...




That's fantastic, I only read bad news. Thanks!


Happy to help. PV solar panels are almost fully recyclable too (94% of the way there, the remainder currently can be land filled).

https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/solar-panel-recycling

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-recycling-idUSKBN1J...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/26/recycling-pv-panels-w...


>Happy to help. PV solar panels are almost fully recyclable too

This is true of batteries too - basically, the stuff dead batteries are made of are far purer than ore, and pretty close to what functioning batteries need due to obvious reasons.


not only that, but the amount of Toxic trash that coal powered or gas powered generators puts out is indescribable compared to the minor amount of toxic trash you can get from a wind turbine. and on top of that, coal releases it into the air...




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