The race to find a way to recycle old turbine blades from windfarms

Made from glass or carbon fibre, they are difficult to break down, but in UK and elsewhere in Europe there are plans to tackle the wasteIn the Scottish port town of Irvine in Ayrshire, almost 80 of Britain’s oldest wind turbine blades lay disused in an old warehouse for over eighteen months.Thirty years ago they towered 55 metres above the South Lanarkshire countryside, powering Scotland’s first commercial windfarm at Hagshaw Hill. But earlier this year these blades pioneered a green