The business said this process, which it described as "mild," protected "the properties of the materials in the blade, in contrast to other existing ways of recycling conventional wind turbine blades.

The news: Wind turbines are crucial for addressing climate change, but when they’ve reached the end of their lives, turbine blades could add up to a lot of waste. Now new research, published in ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, say a realistic path exists in which bio-derivable wind turbine blades can be chemically ...

Moreover, the company is building a wind turbine blade recycling plant in Navarra, Spain. Scheduled to open in 2026, this plant will process 6,000 tons of blade material annually.

The Horizon Europe REFRESH (Smart dismantling, sorting and REcycling of glass Fibre REinforced composite from wind power Sector through Holistic approach) project is presenting its smart, circular ...

The global wind blade recycling market was valued at USD 68.24 million in 2024 and is projected to grow from USD 99.25 million in 2025 to reach USD 1,146 million in 2033, exhibiting a CAGR of 19. ...

Wind turbine manufacturers have known about the end-of-life problem for years, but because a turbine might last 35 years, they waited to address it. Now it’s becoming more urgent.

Reporting in the journal, Resource, Conservation, and Recycling, the team of researchers cut the lightweight material that is commonly used in wind turbine blades, called glass fiber-reinforced ...

That’s why, last year, the federal government launched the Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, offering companies a total of $5.1 million by this summer to kick-start a sustainable recycling ...

Awarded €5.3 million in funding from the Spanish government’s PERTE, and with support from the Navarra government, Waste2Fiber will be using proprietary thermal treatment technology for the recycling ...

WindStrand 4000 allows more efficient blade designs for the production of lighter, longer blades that reduces the cost of wind energy. The future of wind turbine blade recycling is collaborative ...

While wind energy is becoming one of the fastest-growing energy sources in the world, wind turbine blade waste emerges as a critical issue. Addressing this, Lithuanian researchers have developed ...