Recycling massive wind turbine blades can be difficult because they're built from sturdy materials to weather the elements ...

Tiltable, liftable one-piece composite rotor design aims to withstand storm-force winds, boost energy yield and enable more ...

The method would help find a second life for the plastics that make up the bulk of thousands of turbine blades in the U.S.

A new method to recycle wind turbine blades without using harsh chemicals resulted in the recovery of high-strength glass ...

But now, researchers at Washington State University have developed a new, environmentally friendly method to recycle wind ...

Researchers developed a process to recycle glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP), a common material in wind turbine blades.

A team of researchers at Washington State University has found a cleaner, simpler way to recycle wind turbine blades and turn ...

Wind turbines are 90% recycled, but composite blades remain a challenge. The CIRCLE4WIN project is working on thermal decomposition.

Researchers have developed a new method to recycle wind turbine blades without using harsh chemicals. The method yields ...

We4Ce, a Dutch rotor blade designer, has designed 10 rotor blade sets for Dutch wind turbine startup TouchWind for testing on ...

Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP (photo by WSU).