Does Polish law regulate the recycling of blades or other wind turbine components?
9 July 2025 • Autor: Kancelaria Brysiewicz Bokina i Wspólnicy
This issue is explained on Biznesalert.pl by attorney Jan Saklawski. He stresses that currently the recycling of wind farm components is, according to various estimates, possible at 80 to 90 percent.
It should be remembered that one wind turbine is the foundations, the steel tower the technical components housed in the nacelle and the rotors, or blades. Of all these components, of course, the most difficult to reuse is the blade, which has been made in a way to counteract its accidental destruction. Thus, it is constructed of fiberglass-reinforced polymers, which makes it significantly more difficult to convert via even pyrolysis
— explains attorney Jan Sakławski. He also notes that, for now, the Waste Act does not specifically classify turbine blades as a distinct type of waste. According to the regulation of the Minister of Climate on the waste catalogue, blades can be categorized as plastic or fiberglass waste, depending on the dominant material.
At the same time, for example, in Germany, turbine blades are classified as hazardous waste, which makes their landfilling prohibited. Similarly, such landfilling is also banned in Austria, Finland, and the Netherlands. France, on the other hand, has introduced a recycling target for wind turbines starting in 2020.
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