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Wind Turbines Not Only Shred Birds But Are Piling Up Landfills

Paul Bois
Wind Turbines Not Only Shred Birds But Are Piling Up Landfills
Photo: Friso Gentsch/dpa (Photo by Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images)

As it turns out, wind energy may not be as eco-friendly as the environmentalists let on. Not only are they 24/7 bird-killing machines, they are also now piling up in landfills because they cannot be recycled.

“The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the final resting place of 870 blades whose days making renewable energy have come to end. The severed fragments look like bleached whale bones nestled against one another,” reports Bloomberg Green.

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