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Pleasure boats at the end of their life: where is the deconstruction sector?
In France, hundreds of pleasure boats reach the end of their life every year. According to the database made available by the Shom (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy), more than 4,700 wrecks sleep on the seabed off the French coast, including 4,200...
Winner of EPFL’s Switzerland Innovation Tech4Impact Award 2021
Composite Recycling has been named the winner of EPFL's SWITZERLAND Innovation Tech4Impact competition. The main goal of this event is to foster innovative solutions within the Swiss ecosystem that can help meet the Sustainable Development Goals introduced as part of...
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be...
Recycling turbine blades: the Achilles heel of wind power
In this episode of Unreported Europe, Monica Pinna investigates the latest controversy engulfing the wind power sector - the recycling of turbine blades. For some, wind turbines are extraordinary pieces of technology and the answer to our energy needs. For others they...
Nautical not nice: how fibreglass boats have become a global pollution problem
Where do old boats go to die? The cynical answer is they are put on eBay for a few pennies in the hope they become some other ignorant dreamer’s problem.
Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn't include newer, taller higher-capacity...