Caption

Sweetwater, Texas - Thousands of old wind turbine blades are piled up at two illegal dump sites. The state of Texas has charged Global Fiberglass Solutions with dumping the blades rather than recycling them

Date

Aug 08, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/ImageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK26I07_160

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

86.1Mb (28.7Mb) / 22.4in x 14.9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

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