The claim
Once again, the photo of apparently buried wind turbine blades is circulating, accompanied by outrage and claims that there is no recycling technology for blades.
Our conclusion
The photo is real, but it comes from the USA, where this problem actually exists, but in this country the rotor blades are made of completely different material.
The current circulating image including the claim already made the rounds in 2020

In fact, problems arise when recycling wind turbine blades. The pictures with the buried rotor blades do not come from Germany, but they do point to the problem.
Where the photos come from
The images themselves are real and come from a 2020 Bloomberg article dealing with the recycling issue of wind turbine blades ( see here ).
The photos were taken in the USA, more precisely in a place called Casper in the state of Wyoming. The article tells us that there are more than 870 wind turbine blades lined up in a row at the municipal landfill in Casper.
The procedure is different in this country
However, such storage would not be possible in Germany because landfilling of GRP waste is prohibited. A web article from the Energy Agency NRW from 2018 ( archived HERE ) explains this:
“Because the landfilling of GRP waste has been prohibited by law since 2005, storing the material is out of the question. Rotor blades are therefore shredded and the metal residues contained in them are separated. The remaining waste has so far been used thermally as fuel and sand substitute in the cement industry or burned in conventional waste incineration plants.”
Energy Agency NRW
ee news, the specialist magazine for renewable energies, also reports in a recent article that the European wind industry only uses certified balsa wood with the corresponding proof of origin for production, but has been using the substitute materials PET and PVC foam for several years, which have also been used for many years can be easily reprocessed or recycled for years to come.
Conclusion
The photo(s) are real, but from the USA, where the rotor blades are made from a different material, which actually creates a recycling problem there, while in this country the rotor blades are made from recyclable material, so there are such “rotor blade graveyards”. “doesn’t exist.
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