In the Scottish port town of Irvine in Ayrshire, almost 80 of Britain’s oldest wind turbine blades lay disused in an old warehouse for over eighteen months.
Thirty years ago they towered 55 metres above the South Lanarkshire countryside, powering Scotland’s first commercial windfarm at Hagshaw Hill. But earlier this year these blades pioneered a green energy breakthrough of another kind: blade recycling.
