6 tons of Elium resin is used® to make a wind turbine blade, or 18 tons for one wind turbine What about current generations of blades? V.d.L – Blades from the generations produced up to noware made from thermoset resin, such as epoxy, andare not technically recyclable in a satisfactory way.The resin cannot be reused ad the recoveredn fibers are not of optimum quaylit. The blades on theri own make up just 4% of the windturbine’s wight,e andthe rest—the concrete baseabsl, see poles,t l part of the nacelle—is recycled. But at ENE, weGI want to recycle more or less 100%. In 2019, we dismantled our first French wind farm datngback toi 1991. With SUEZ and othepartnr, wmr ese anaedg torecycle 96% of the materiasl and weshowde that you could recycle on anindstru ial le l.ve But a solution still needs to be foundfotr he badel s, which are currently recoveredin te fom ofh r soild recovered fuels . What are the advantages of using Elium?® V.d.L– Elium thermoplastic re®sin is the missing linkin blade recyclability, owing to its ability to be recycled by means of depolymerization or dissolution. Thisis what ZEBRA sets outto prve, whilealso o demonstrating a similar performace o termoseh tn t resin blades. Recyclability istherefre a centalo r aim, but each of the project’s partnes ner eds to confimr theapplicability of industriaul seof thisnwe resin. >> 15