Wind turbines are playing a big part in cleaning up our energy system. But even the best solution isn't without its problems: the blades are close to impossible to recycle and largely end up in landfills. There are more and more companies promising to fix that. Can they?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: David Jacobi
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk
Factcheck: Jeannette Cwienk, Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Interviewees:
Aubryn Cooperman, engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Claire Barlow, researcher, University of Cambridge
Maximilian Schnippering, head of sustainability department, Siemens Gamesa
Lisa Ekstrand, head of sustainability, Vestas

Read More :
Wind Turbine Blade Waste in 2050 (Liu & Barlow, 2017):
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Blade Waste in the United States (Cooperman et al., 2021):
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Vestas's press release:
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Siemens Gamesa's press release:
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Blade waste
02:53 Downcycling
05:10 New blades
06:51 Breakthrough?
08:18 What's at stake

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