About 85 per cent of a wind turbine’s mass can be recycled effectively, but the blades cannot. Most end up in landfill, and as thousands of turbines approach the end of their lifetimes, the problem is only getting worse. But as the FT’s Esan Swan reports, new technologies could alleviate the problem.

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