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Zack Metcalfe

Zack Metcalfe

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About Zack Metcalfe

Zack Metcalfe is a freelance journalist, columnist and author based in Salmon Arm, BC. He specializes in biodiversity, climate change and travel writing, and enjoys running, rock climbing and chess. He can be followed on his personal website: thewanderingrook.ca. And you can follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thewanderingrook/

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Turning wind turbine blades into boats: Recycling fibreglass and resins

Individual sheets of fibreglass are notoriously difficult to recycle. This is a problem for the wind industry, whose turbine blades are essential hundred-metre-long, fibreglass tubes. Once they’ve served their 30-year-lifespans, unloading them on landfills is unpopular at best, banned (in some countries) at worst. Part of the solution has been the development of recyclable resins, more easily broken down by traditional solvents, and at lower temperatures and pressures.