Repurposing wind turbine blades as a construction material: A method to extract valuable elements from a decommissioned wind turbine blade for applications in the construction industry

Wind turbines are decommissioned when they reach their endoflife. The reason for reaching endoflife varies per wind turbine, but they all have in common that the wind turbine blades can not be recycled and thus end up as waste. Since a growing amount of wind turbines will reach their endoflife the coming decade, the waste problem will increase....