Per Business Insider Africa on Instagram, Violia has developed a system to convert decommissioned wind turbine blades into usable material for cement manufacturing, offering an environmentally effective reuse strategy.
Wind turbine blades—typically made of fiberglass composites—are notoriously difficult to recycle.
Violia first shreds them into football-sized chunks before finer grinding and sorting.
Violia receives retired blades from GE Renewable Energy, pays for collection and processing at its Missouri facility, and sells the shredded composite material to cement makers as raw fuel replacement for coal, sand and clay.
Veolia reports that more than 90% of each blade is repurposed: about 65% used as material, and 28% converted into thermal fuel, reducing CO₂ emissions by up to 27% per blade compared with traditional cement production.
Experts note blade recycling remains uncommon due to cost and logistical challenges, but shredding for cement co-processing presents a scalable circular-economy solution to what was once considered non-recyclable waste — particularly valuable as Europe and the U.S. phase in landfill bans for turbine components.
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