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How will China deal with wind turbine blade waste?

Wind power supply chains are evolving as markets expand to reach climate goals. With the largest installed wind power capacity globally, China must deal with increasing composite turbine waste and anticipate its associated costs. Here we predict the quantity and composition of wind turbine blade waste based on historic deployment.

How to reduce wind turbine blade waste?

Reducing the panic caused by the sudden global policy of waste trade, wind turbine blade waste can be handled in a reasonable division of labour on a national and global scale. Circular strategies will be required to reduce the wind turbine blade waste from production, operation, and EOL phases 38.

Can wind turbine blade waste be used in cement production?

6. The utilization of EOL Wind turbine blade waste in cement production will enhance the mills’ and cement plants’ environmental assessments. As a result, coprocessing is the most practical, environmentally beneficial, and cost-effective recycling approach for dealing with current and future wastes.

Does wind turbine blade waste affect the environment?

A very limited number of studies have considered the environmental impacts of managing wind turbine blade waste considering the future wind power installation.

How can wind turbine waste be managed?

The waste of wind turbine materials can be managed by ‘reuse’ and ‘repurpose’ process along with recycling technologies, which will create a ‘circular economy’. The circular economy aims to maintain the products and materials in use for as long as possible at the highest possible value.

What drives wind power waste generation?

From mid-2040s, waste generation is driven primarily by assumed rates of wind power deployment after 2019, rather than historic data, and so approaches a linear trend. The dynamic pattern of the waste generation over years observed in Fig. 3 is mainly due to the manufacturing waste and EoL waste. Fig. 3.