Turbines turning from wind to sustainable products
The company’s Chief Executive Andrew Billingsley said finding a way to take blade waste beyond the end of its useful life is an essential part of creating a green, circular economy. “The issue today is, I could say, colossal. “The blades are big – they have been going to landfill and they’ve been disappearing into…
The company’s Chief Executive Andrew Billingsley said finding a way to take blade waste beyond the end of its useful life is an essential part of creating a green, circular economy.
“The issue today is, I could say, colossal.
“The blades are big – they have been going to landfill and they’ve been disappearing into quarries and so forth.
“At present, there’s somewhere in the region of 125,000 tonnes of blades across the world getting disposed of by one means or another, but very rarely is it done in a sustainable way.”
The company turns the blades into a long-lasting reusable material that can be used as an alternative to timber, for fence posts and reusable transport pallets.
Billingsley believes it could even be used an alternative to precast concrete and timber.
“Typically, a tonne of virgin plastic needs about three tonnes of CO2 in the manufacturing.
“We’re preventing the incineration of plastics, and burning plastics produces between 2.7 and 2.9 tonnes of CO2 for every tonne burned.”
But proving those green credentials is another matter.
