Chris Navarro's blog

Thursday, 3 November, 2022
Sculptor Chris Navarro saving old wind turbine blades from landfills and creating monumental art. Turning trash into art.The blades of wind turbines can be from 120 feet to 219 feet in length. The 120-foot blades weigh 12,OOO lbs. and cost $125,000 each and have an estimated life cycle of 20 years.Obsolete wind turbine rotor blades are a problem because they are made with use of glass and carbon fiber and are extremely difficult to recycle at the present time. Thousands of tons of rotor blade waste materials are expected to arrive at waste reception centers in the next few years.‘...