Toilet cleaner is toxic why is that even allowed to be thrown into our waste water? I would rather see some solid data on how much of these alleged toxins leach out of these blades before throwing the disposal issue at anyone. If there’s an alleged chemical toxin issue why would they be buried in a landfill? Round-Up is a toxin and sprayed all over the place. Retaining walls? Fencing? There must be thousands of uses.
Cut them up and they could make small planters in a commercial development laid out next to each other in a huge spread. Once they are in the ground, the blades will remain there essentially forever – they do not degrade or break down over time.Ĭontainer homes are built from worn shipping containers seems these blades could be turned into a lot of things. Around 8,000 wind turbine blades will need to be removed and disposed of every year in the United States alone
Pieces of wind turbine blades are buried in the Casper Regional Landfill in Casper, Wyoming. In addition to the landfill in Casper, landfills in Lake Mills, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota accept the discarded blades – but few other facilities have the kind of open space needed to bury the massive blades. The blades, some of which are as long as a football field, have to be hacked up to fit on trucks for transport to landfills Once they reach the end of their useful life on electricity-generating wind turbines, the blades have to be hacked up with industrial saws into pieces small enough to fit on a flat-bed trailer and hauled to a landfill that accepts them. About 8,000 of the blades are decommissioned in the U.S. The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects.īuilt to withstand hurricane winds, the turbine blades cannot easily be crushed or recycled. The Casper Regional Landfill in Wyoming is one of a few places in the nation to dispose of used wind turbine blades Incredible photos have revealed the final resting place of massive wind turbine blades that cannot be recycled, and are instead heaped up in piles in landfills.
Not so green energy: Hundreds of non-recyclable fiberglass wind turbine blades are pictured piling up in landfill The American wind industry is literally attempting to bury its past by the hundreds of thousands in landfills across the States, proving that wind power ain’t so clean or green, after all. Across the globe, the wind industry has been berating us with its ‘clean’ and ‘green’ credentials for more than 20 years. Not for the first time, and not for the last time has an industry been caught out on counts of cynical hypocrisy. Which should worry locals who rely on nearby aquifers for their groundwater: the plastics in the blades are highly toxic, and contain Bisphenol A, which is so dangerous to health that the European Union and Canada have banned it.
Thousands of 45-70m blades (weighing between 10 to 25 tonnes) are being ground up and mixed with concrete used in the bases of other turbines erected later or simply dumped in landfill. Then there’s the landfill legacy being created by wind turbine blades, with the First World cynically using the Third World as its dumping ground: ‘Green’ Energy’s Poisonous Legacy: Millions of Toxic Turbine Blades Destined for African Landfills Solar panels are a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium, and heavy earth material. Mike Moore’s Planet of the Humans lifted the lid on the mountains of toxic filth generated by so-called ‘green’ energy, much to the horror of renewable energy rent seekers and climate cult zealots, alike.
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