Wind Simplicity, North York, Ontario, has received the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’(ISRI’s) Design for Recycling (DfR) Award for 2011. The Canadian company was recognized for its Windancer small wind turbine.
Photo courtesy of Dan Balean.In a press release issued by Wind Simplicity, the company says the Windancer’s blades are made out of recyclable aluminum instead of hard-to-recycle composite materials, such as fiberglass, that other wind turbines use.John Sacco, ISRI chairman, presented the award to Sharolyn Vettese, CEO, president and a co-inventor of the wind turbine, at the association’s annual convention in Los Angeles in April.
“The Design for Recycling Award encapsulates the concept of a sustainable product life cycle. As a company in the renewable energy business, we at Wind Simplicity are delighted to win this prestigious award,” Vettese says. “We thank ISRI for the honor and for the important and outstanding work it does to promote and educate companies about sustainable design."
Manny Bodner, chair of the ISRI Task Force on DfR, says, “Wind Simplicity demonstrated great creativity in incorporating DfR criteria into the manufacturing processes, thereby making their wind turbine completely recyclable. Wind Simplicity is a textbook example of incorporating DfR principles into their manufacturing process.”
ISRI created Design for Recycling as a voluntary program to urge manufacturers to think about making products that can be recycled right from the drawing-board stage.