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ACCIONA, a global renewable energy company, has partnered with professional surfer Josh Kerr, and his surfboard brand, Draft Surf, to create the world’s first surfboards made from decommissioned wind turbine blades. “We know that in the next 10 to 15 years, countries like Australia will have a large volume of decommissioned wind turbine blades, so we’re acting now to explore new ways to recycle and reuse the material they are built from,” said global sustainability director Mariola Domenech. Ten prototype boards have been made as part of ACCIONA’s “Turbine Made” initiative, Australia’s first program to explore innovative ways to transform retired turbine blades into new products. ACCIONA is developing a blade recycling plant in Navarra, Spain, which will create 100 jobs and have a processing capacity of 6,000 tons of material per year.
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