Balderdash. Anything can be recycled. Wind turbine blades are just big....the component elements are just plastic and glass fiber. The plastic will burn just fine, and the glass fiber residue will landfill easily. Bigbob's post has it right. Fiberglass is fiberglass, whether it is wind turbine blades or boat hulls. Any engineer can design a facility to reduce either to small chips that can then either be burned or recycled.
A wind farm near Albert Lea, Minn., brought more than 100 wind turbine blades measuring 120 ft long to be dumped in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, landfill, but there’s a problem: the massive blades are taking up too much room ..
South Dakota is a long way to travel to dispose of wind turbine blades, which uses a lot of diesel fuel, and ..
Is there no engineer in Minnesota who can design a facility to recycled this mess ?