The company says it will present its new waste-management strategy in the next two years.
For while turbines produce renewable energy, their construction has an environmental impact.John Turp | Moment | Getty Imagessaid Monday that it was aiming to produce "zero-waste" wind turbines by the year 2040.
This, it added in a statement, would be achieved through the introduction of a "circular economy approach" in the design, production, service and end-of-life parts of the value chain. "As the world's largest supplier of wind energy, Vestas has a responsibility to eliminate waste across its value chain," Tommy Rahbek Nielsen, who is interim chief operations officer at Vestas, said in a statement.
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