Spreading Scourge: Wind Turbine Blades Shedding Toxic Plastics During Operation
June 21, 2021
There’s a landfill legacy being created by wind turbine blades, with the First World cynically using the Third World as its dumping ground:‘Green’ Energy’s Poisonous Legacy: Millions of Toxic Turbine Blades Destined for African Landfills
Thousands of 45-70m blades (weighing between 10 to 25 tonnes) are being ground up and mixed with concrete used in the bases of other turbines erected later or simply dumped in landfill. Which should worry locals: the plastics in the blades are highly toxic, and contain Bisphenol A, which is so dangerous to health that the European Union and Canada have banned it.
But, it’s not just the ticking time bomb created by the millions of wind turbine blades that will end up buried around the world, there’s also a more immediate threat posed by these things. As wind turbine blades erode during operation, the toxins within the epoxy compounds they shed are finding their way into the oceans and our drinking water.
Bisphenol A in wind turbines damages human fertility
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