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To: Sequoyah101

In fact a company that has a process to recycle wind turbine blades plans to make extra money by recycling fiberglass boats and other crap that’s made in much higher volumes and has been landfilled for years.


19 posted on 09/28/2019 6:13:15 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

There are currently three options for the disposal of the blade:landfill, incineration and recyling[4].

Landfill disposal represents the cheapest option; however most countries aim to reduce the amount of landfill waste, and in the future disposal of such a large amount of material will be unacceptable.

Turbine Blades are constructed from composite materialsW and these can be burned for calorific value [5] as a source of energy. Incineration can lead to the production of hazardous by-products and approximately 60% material remains as scrap[4] which will be disposed of in a landfill, or recycled as construction filler within a material.

Currently, there are two main methods of recycling: mechanical, which greatly reduces the scrap’s size to produce recyclates, and thermal processing[5], which breaks down the scrap material into materials and energy.

https://www.appropedia.org/Recycling_of_wind_turbine_blades


21 posted on 09/28/2019 6:18:34 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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