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hunter

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8. Now we can pretend to recycle wind turbines just as we pretend to recycle plastic packaging.

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:01 PM

Wednesday

Will wind turbine blades get their own recycling label?

Will homeless people be collecting wind turbine blades like plastic bottles from the trash bins to turn in for cash?

Sigh.

I'm so weary of people telling me the world is saved when it's not.

Wind turbines are not among the things that are making the world a better place. They will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels and do nothing in the long run to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses and other pollutants humans dump into earth's atmosphere and oceans.

We will not save the world by trashing it.

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Wow! We're saved! The British have introduced recyclable wind turbine blades!!! I learned about it right here at DU. [View all] NNadir Wednesday OP

Thanks for the laugh! -misanthroptimist Wednesday #1

Interesting about the recyclable turbine blades, especially since we have lovely wind farms here txwhitedove Wednesday #2

Well, you got your wish didn't you? Nuclear energy didn't save you although what you call "bare land..." NNadir Wednesday #3

West Texas is a a lot of relatively flat bare ass land. Definitely not a wilderness. I was glad to see txwhitedove Wednesday #4

I stand by my definition while recognizing that antinukes reject it. I'm what one calls, an "environmentalist" of... NNadir Wednesday #5

Good grief. The tragedy was MAN who stripped the native buffalo grass to plant wheat and txwhitedove Wednesday #6

Good Grief! Even the generally antinuke NRDC has concerns about wind energy development in Texas. NNadir Wednesday #7

Now we can pretend to recycle wind turbines just as we pretend to recycle plastic packaging. hunter Wednesday #8

Sounds like a plan. The label will make everyone feel real "green" I'm sure. NNadir Wednesday #9