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Massive wind turbine blades are piling up in landfills because there’s no way to recycle, report finds

February 6, 2020

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Whenever President Donald Trump criticizes wind energy, left-wing elites mock him for allegedly being an “uneducated’ simpleton.


Yet new findings by Bloomberg suggest that the real simpletons are those too thick-skulled and arrogant to at least consider his points, for it turns out that wind energy produces a lot more waste than initially expected.


“A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away,” the outlet reported Wednesday.


What happens, therefore, is that the blades are instead forwarded to a landfill, where they then proceed to become environmentally unfriendly trash.


“Tens of thousands of aging blades are coming down from steel towers around the world and most have nowhere to go but landfills,” Bloomberg noted.


“In the U.S. alone, about 8,000 will be removed in each of the next four years. Europe, which has been dealing with the problem longer, has about 3,800 coming down annually through at least 2022.”

As the lifetime of wind turbine blades come to an end, there is no way to recycle them, left forever in landfill sites.

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That’s a lot of blades …


Because of their heavyset construction, which is designed to withstand hurricane-force winds, wind turbine blades “can’t easily be crushed, recycled or repurposed.”

“That’s created an urgent search for alternatives in places that lack wide-open prairies. In the U.S., they go to the handful of landfills that accept them, in Lake Mills, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Casper, where they will be interred in stacks that reach 30 feet under,” Bloomberg noted.


According to Bob Cappadona of Veolia Environnement SA, a resource management group based out of Paris, chances are these blades will remain “there, ultimately, forever.”

“The last thing we want to do is create even more environmental challenges,” he added.

Yet that’s exactly what the increased use of wind energy has engendered.

The good news is that groups like Veolia are working tirelessly to develop methods for essentially recycling wind turbine blades. Whether or not this is enough good news to justify the continued building of wind turbines remains for the people to decide.

That said, there’s a lot of bad news regarding wind turbines, besides for the fact that their blades will continue filling up landfills for the time being.


“Wind turbines kill an estimated 140,000 to 328,000 birds each year in North America, making it the most threatening form of green energy,” the National Audubon Society notes.


Audubon is one of the oldest environmental non-profits in the world dedicated to the conservation of birds and other wildlife.


Yet when the president spoke in December about “the number of eagles being killed by the wind turbines,” he was mocked for it by left-wing elites: