How Bad Is The Wind Turbine Trash Problem? And Can We Solve It? | World Wide Waste
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Published 2024-02-28
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00:00 - Intro
00:56 - The Wind Turbine Waste Problem
01:56 - Slicing Giant Blades Smaller
02:41 - Prepping The Blade's Surface
03:19 - Turning A Blade Slice Into a Bench
05:55 - Effects Of Repowering Wind Farms
06:32 - Delivering The Products
07:32 - Artist Painting Program
08:10 - What Typically Happens To Blade Waste?
08:46 - How Much Can Upcycling Help?
09:35 - Burning Blades At Cement Factories
10:10 - The Future of Blade Waste
11:22 - Comparing Blade Waste To Other Energy Waste
12:23 - Credits
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How Bad Is The Wind Turbine Trash Problem? And Can We Solve It? | World Wide Waste
All Comments (21)
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12:10 "If you throw enough money at problems then you can solve those problems" hands down best quote
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As someone who has worked with fiberglass, that has to be worse than plastic waste for underwater life or any life, for that matter.
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There are now recyclable resins that can be broken down once the blade has been deemed end-of-life. The solid materials can be reused in smaller products, and it only leaves the resin as waste
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The last image really puts things into perspective. We need these people to work on coal ash and household trash as well.
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Holy cow...I just don't see how this is practical. I love good, legitimate recycling, but the amount of effort described to find a use for these things makes it too expensive to be practical. I was not surprised to hear that they're not making a profit. More power to them if they can put effort into something and be proud of it, but it doesn't strike me as a fabulous solution.
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These benches look SICK though! I would absolutely love to see these pop up in cities all across the US
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Still a fan of nuclear. The waste has far less volume from my understanding. Plus it's capable of being used like a battery so it can be used in thousands of more ways than other forms of energy.
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So there are a lot of things that these blades could be used for. The ends that attach to the windmill could be garden rings, no need to do anything, other then cut them down. What about roofing or siding material. I would love to have a bunch of the thin end pieces and make a fence out of them around my property.. They could also be used for livestock shelters.
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As soon as i saw Business insider ..I knew this was PR to cover for Wind Farms and Renewables Did you see the huge labor cost there is to make those recycled benches ...they will have the charge 20k per bench to break even.
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That’s why it’s important to map the entire lifecycle including design and disposal, before producing the product! From my perspective that could have prevented this huge amount of waste…
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Well. That start-up company just turned a hard to recycle thing into an even harder to recycle thing, by pouring more hatd to recycle composite materials all over it. At least when looking at that public bench thing at the start. The other things make more sense. But the most important part of the video are the two pictures at the end, which provide context and perspective, which lots if people don't have.
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I worked at a fiberglass plastic manufacturing plant for 4 years. This video made me itchy.
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There's thousands of blades in Elsworth Iowa just stacking up along interstate 35.
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Every year the auto industry contributes over 11 million cars to the 7-8000 junkyards in the US alone, and yeah windmills are a problem!
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Plant them in the ground vertically side-by-side and create a solid weather resistant fence.
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Looking at the covered benches, the first use I thought of was as covered benches for rural and small town bus stops. Someone should call Pete and find out if they can get a DOT grant for a pilot project for that.
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Thankyou Insider a wonderful video in content and production, a great watch. 😊
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This is so cool and informative.
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Many times the program showed folks cutting these blades with little to no regard for the dust pollution. These tiny airborne particles are not safe for anyone/thing to inhale.
