My Alberta relatives have told me waste (broken panels and broken wind turbines) is a big issue for renewable energy. Apparently there are piles and piles of discarded solar panels and wind turbine blades piling up 🤔
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To my knowledge wind turbine plates can currently not be recycled. Solar panels should be recyclable
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 0 • view
Both are very much recyclable (blades and panels). Howeber, cumulative blade waste from 2020 to 2050 is estimated to represent only 0.05% to 1.6% of MSW going to landfills each year in the US. It is a vanishingly small issue that has been wildly overblown.
aug 30, 2025, 11:16 am • 5 0 • view
That is what I figured and have said to them. O&G is still worse for the environment. But they don't like hearing that.
aug 30, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view