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> I just found out a few weeks ago that wind turbine blades are toxic trash when they age out.

Do you have any information on that, I'd never heard of that being the case?



Here's one of the things I read:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste...

Another comment on this thread says it's all fine and I'm wrong, which is good news.


In your original comment, you’d said “toxic”. toomuchtodo was right to note exactly what your source explains: they’re mostly recyclable (though many places aren’t ready for the blades because they’re so big!) and if not they can be scrapped and left in a landfill. Toxic means something specific, and isn’t just “can’t be recycled”.


Apparently it's just extra fast replacement cycles due to the fact that the original designs weren't thought of this way.




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