(Des Moines, IA) — Recycled wind turbine blades are getting a second life helping to secure a construction site in Downtown Des Moines.
Graham Construction is currently using 28 barriers made from recycled wind turbine blades to secure the construction site at Mercy College of Health Sciences. Nick Wylie with Renewablade, the company that re-purposes wind turbine blades, tells WHO Radio News the process begins with collecting retired blades no longer being used on windmills:
“We can go on-site and cut them and then haul them off, so when we’re hauling them, it’s not on a 200 foot trailer like you see a lot of the new ones going down. We’re hauling them on a regular flatbed after they’re cut into smaller pieces. Then we’ll take them to our facility, we shred them up into smaller pieces, and then turn them into concrete.”…