Wind turbines are generally considered to be clean and sustainable sources of energy. But criticism of the wind turbine blades has now appeared on social media, at least in terms of their recyclability.
The photos are shocking: countless wind turbine blades are buried. The reason: According to a posting, these sheets cannot be reused.
The wind turbine blades would be considered hazardous waste that cannot be recycled. The reason is the material from which the turbine blades are made. You can read about these pictures on Facebook:
Mira Oonk: “The rotor blades of wind turbines are buried here because they are not considered recyclable - a huge environmental mess under the guise of (poisonous) green energy. The wings are hazardous waste because they are made of glass fiber reinforced plastic ((PolyesterHaz) GRP for short) which is not recyclable. This has been known for a long time, but is often kept secret.”
In fact, problems arise when recycling wind turbine blades. The pictures with the buried turbine blades do not come from Germany, but they do point to the problem:

Fact check wind turbine blades
Ultimately, wind turbines don’t last forever. In some places they are also being replaced by more efficient systems. This creates corresponding waste. Ideally, however, the materials from a wind turbine should be reused.
However, the wind turbine blades and nacelle cladding, which are made of difficult-to-use composite materials, pose a problem. This is also clear from a summary by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT and the Technical University of Dresden. Here you read :
From a technological point of view, WKA's rotor blades are a composite of synthetic resin (epoxy or polyester resin) and fibers (glass or carbon fibers).
In addition, fillers, copper cables as lightning protection and gelcoats for impregnation are used. The difficulty lies in the size reduction of this material composite.
This summary also shows that, overall, a wind turbine can achieve a recycling rate of 80-90%. But the Federal Environment Agency also said in a press release from 2019 that wind turbine blades are problematic:
There is a risk of bottlenecks in recycling capacity for the fiber-reinforced plastics of the rotor blades and risks to people and the environment if they are dismantled improperly.
Just buried?
But can these wind turbine blades simply be buried, as the pictures show? The pictures themselves are real and come from a Bloomberg article that deals with the recycling problem 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.
However, such storage would not be possible in Germany because landfilling of GRP waste is prohibited. A web article from the Energy Agency NRW 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. However, this is only possible in small quantities due to the structure of the fiberglass and the complex chemical reactions in the combustion process that stress the filters and combustion lines.
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