Wind turbines contribute to cleaner energy goals, but their end-of-life management requires sustainable solutions. A Spanish infrastructure firm is tackling the issue of retired wind turbine blades ...

Wind turbines are necessary for ensuring society’s sustainable future, but they still have a recycling problem. Decommissioned installations are destined for landfills in many cases, while the steel ...

Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in ...

Located in Lund’s fast-growing Brunnshög district, the new Niels Bohr car park is said to be the first facility of its kind in Europe to incorporate old recycled turbine blades into its structure. The ...

In southern Sweden, the city of Lund has built a multi-story parking garage that clearly shows how people can reuse old materials in practical and creative ways. The project demonstrates that builders ...

Verretex SA, an EPFL spin-off pioneering regenerated glass-fibre textiles, and Ryse Energy, a global manufacturer of small wind turbines and hybrid off-grid systems, announced on 2 September that they ...

Celebrated Wyoming sculptor Chris Navarro has used a giant wind turbine blade to make a snow fence sculpture at the Wyoming ...

A retaining wall at Premier Credit Union in downtown Des Moines is made from concrete mixed with fiber from decommissioned wind turbine blades. (Renewablade via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The ...

A damaged 44-meter turbine blade from Vattenfall’s Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm has been recycled by Plaswire, a Northern Ireland-based company. Plaswire has developed a sustainable solution which ...

Acciona Energía and El Ganso have announced the launch of a new line of sneakers made with recycled blades from a wind farm currently undergoing repowering: Tahivilla in Cádiz (Spain). The new ...

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 ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled ...