Why can’t they be recycled?
Why can’t they be recycled?
FR Guess:
It’s cheaper and safer to put up new ones rather than risk failure of one at the end of its life
Send them to Fargo. They got wood chippers there.
I agree, Why can’t they be taken to a smelter and turned into new steel?
fiberglass is a mixture of resin and glass fibers sandwiched together. I only know this because when I was younger My dad would use the material to make sailboats and I spent a few summers helping with the construction. I am just guessing but my guess is that recycling is prohibitively expensive and that the technology to do it has not been developed to the point where the shear amount of fiberglass waste can be done because the production of the waste surpasses the ability to recycle.
Composite materials don't "recycle" well.
https://recyclenation.com/2014/09/recycle-fiberglass/
Not that their volume can't be reduced, but chopping or grinding up creates new and different hazards, compared with the finsished but used up part.
Similar issue with fiberglass boat hulls. Take up plenty of room.
“Why can’t they be recycled?”
Because you can’t break them down and stick them in the “mixed” container.
rwood
They’re fiberglass. I guess you could remold them into old 70s & 80s Vettes or something.