Discarded wind turbine blades equal to the volume of 215,000 steel locomotives will need to be recycled, incinerated or sent to landfill sites by 2050.

This crisis is no longer a distant possibility set somewhere in the future. It's already happening, and a massive wave of… pic.twitter.com/Fgzu3thPzu

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