Editing Windmill (section)

==== Recycling and waste problems with polymers blades ====
When the [[Vindeby Offshore Wind Farm]] was taken down in [[Denmark]] in 2017, 99% of the not-[[Biodegradable waste|degradable]] [[fiberglass]] from 33 wind turbine blades ended as cut up at the Rærup Controlled [[Landfill]] near [[Aalborg]] and in 2020, with considerably larger fiberglass quantities, even though it is the least [[Natural environment|environmentally]] friendly way of [[Waste management|handling]] [[waste]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} Scrapped wind turbine blades are set to become a huge waste problem in Denmark and countries Denmark, to a greater and greater extent, [[export]] its many produced wind turbines.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tal og viden om eksport {{!}} Wind Denmark |url=https://winddenmark.dk/styrk-din-eksport-med-wind-denmark-danish-export-association/tal-viden-om-eksport |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=winddenmark.dk |language=da |archive-date=2022-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915122637/https://winddenmark.dk/styrk-din-eksport-med-wind-denmark-danish-export-association/tal-viden-om-eksport |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Arbejdspladser og eksport {{!}} Wind Denmark |url=https://winddenmark.dk/tal-fakta/arbejdspladser-eksport |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=winddenmark.dk |language=da |archive-date=2022-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220915122632/https://winddenmark.dk/tal-fakta/arbejdspladser-eksport |url-status=dead }}</ref>

"The reason why many wings end up in landfill is that they are incredibly difficult to separate from each other, which you will have to do if you hope to be able to [[Recycling|recycle]] the fiberglass", says Lykke Margot Ricard, [[Associate professor|Associate Professor]] in Innovation and Technological Foresight and education leader for civil engineering in Product Development and Innovation at the [[University of Southern Denmark]] (SDU). According to Dakofa, the Danish Competence Center for Waste and Resources, there is nothing specific in the Danish waste order about how to handle discarded fiberglass.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Verdens første havmøllepark er deponeret på en losseplads i Aalborg |url=https://plast.dk/plast-i-medierne/verdens-foerste-havmoellepark-er-deponeret-paa-en-losseplads-i-aalborg/ |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=plast.dk |date=25 October 2021 |language=da-DK |archive-date=2022-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912115816/https://plast.dk/plast-i-medierne/verdens-foerste-havmoellepark-er-deponeret-paa-en-losseplads-i-aalborg/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Olifent |first1=Af Louise |last2=Fredsted |first2=Rasmus |last3=Møgelbjerg 5 |first3=Sebastian Himmelstrup og Thomas |date=2020-04-17 |title=Glasfiber fra Vindeby Havmøllepark endte på losseplads i Aalborg |url=https://ing.dk/artikel/naceller-vindeby-endte-pa-losseplads-234245 |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Ingeniøren |language=da}}</ref>

Several [[scrap dealer]]s tell [[Ingeniøren]] that they have handled wind turbine blades (wings) that have been [[Powder|pulverized]] after being taken to a recycling station.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Tiirikainen |first=Morten |title=Politikere kræver handling: Rester fra vindmøller dumpes i jorden |url=https://www.tv2east.dk/sjaelland-og-oeerne/politikere-kraever-handling-rester-fra-vindmoeller-dumpes-i-jorden |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=TV2 ØST |date=19 October 2020 |language=da}}</ref> One of them is the [[recycling company]] H.J. Hansen, where the [[product manager]] informed, that they have [[transport]]ed approximately half of the wings they have received since 2012 to Reno Nord's landfill in Aalborg. A total of around 1,000 wings have ended up there, he estimates - and today up to 99 percent of the wings the company receives end up in a landfill.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Vindmøllevinger ender i deponi |work=Energy Supply DK |url=https://www.energy-supply.dk/article/view/714000/vindmollevinger_ender_i_deponi |access-date=2022-09-12}}</ref>

Since 1996, according to an estimate made by Lykke Margot Ricard ([[University of Southern Denmark|SDU]]) in 2020, at least 8,810 [[tonne]]s of the wing [[scrap]] have been disposed of in Denmark, and the waste problem will grow significantly in the coming years when more and more wind turbines have reached their end of life. According to the SDU lecturer's calculations, the waste sector in Denmark will have to receive 46,400 tonnes of fiberglass from wind turbine blades over the next 20–25 years.<ref name=":0" />

As so, at the [[island]], [[Lolland]], in Denmark, 250 tonnes of fiberglass from wind turbine waste also pours up on a landfill at Gerringe in the middle of Lolland in 2020.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Østergaard |first=Kasper Larsen Jens |title=Bagsiden af den grønne strøm - vindmøllerester graves ned i jorden |url=https://www.tv2east.dk/sjaelland-og-oeerne/bagsiden-af-den-groenne-stroem-vindmoellerester-graves-ned-i-jorden |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=TV2 ØST |date=19 October 2020 |language=da}}</ref>

In the [[United States]], worn-out wind turbine blades made of fiberglass go to the handful of landfills that accept them (e.g., in [[Lake Mills, Iowa|Lake Mills]], Iowa; [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota|Sioux Falls]], South Dakota; [[Casper, Wyoming|Casper]]).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chris |first=Martin |date=2020 |title=Wind Turbine Blades Can't Be Recycled, So They're Piling Up in Landfills |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills}}</ref>