Across Europe, countries that once went all in on wind power are now grappling with impending piles of discarded turbine parts and scrambling to find ways to recycle them, The Guardian reports. One ...
Chinese energy giant Ming Yang Smart Energy has developed the “world’s first fully recyclable carbon fiber wind turbine blade ...
Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP (photo by WSU). PULLMAN ...
Recent changes to the waste stream in Ames has some residents feeling unsettled. The Ames Climate Action Team has been ...
Electronic waste recycling and metal recovery represent critical strategies in addressing the dual challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation. As global electronics consumption ...
Imagine if renewable energy infrastructure created permanent waste streams. That’s wind energy’s uncomfortable reality: those massive turbine blades reaching end-of-life have nowhere to go but ...