Climate Changed
Turbines Tossed Into Dump Stirs Debate on Wind’s Dirty Downside
- Casper, Wyoming, will bury 1,000 fiberglass blades at dump
- Wind industry looking for new ways to re-use aging equipment
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Wind turbines may be carbon-free, but they’re not recyclable.
A photograph of dozens of giant turbine blades dumped into a Wyoming landfill touched off a debate Wednesday on Twitter about wind power’s environmental drawbacks. The argument may be only beginning.