Yes, wind turbines can be recycled

“Not so green energy” reads the Daily Mail headline. “Hundreds of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are pictured piling up in landfill”.

It’s a fairly typical news story about one of the downsides of wind energy. There have been plenty of articles on end of life turbines, some of them useful, and some of them gleeful takedowns of technologies some people oppose. Either way, it’s best not take these articles as the final word. There is a difference between something being ‘non-recyclable’ and...