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The company’s Chief Executive Andrew Billingsley said finding a way to take blade waste beyond the end of its useful life is an essential part of creating a green, circular economy.<\/p>\n
“The issue today is, I could say, colossal.<\/p>\n
“The blades are big – they have been going to landfill and they’ve been disappearing into quarries and so forth.<\/p>\n
“At present, there’s somewhere in the region of 125,000 tonnes of blades across the world getting disposed of by one means or another, but very rarely is it done in a sustainable way.”<\/p>\n
The company turns the blades into a long-lasting reusable material that can be used as an alternative to timber, for fence posts and reusable transport pallets.<\/p>\n
Billingsley believes it could even be used an alternative to precast concrete and timber.<\/p>\n
“Typically, a tonne of virgin plastic needs about three tonnes of CO2 in the manufacturing.<\/p>\n
“We’re preventing the incineration of plastics, and burning plastics produces between 2.7 and 2.9 tonnes of CO2 for every tonne burned.”<\/p>\n
But proving those green credentials is another matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n