That's the problem.

The company Veolia set out to solve the blades come from all over the US to the town of Louisiana Missouri.

Here, workers cut them down before sending them to the shredder.

This machine is powerful enough to crush the 20 ft sections into pieces, roughly the size of a football.

Then the blade chunks go to another shredder that grinds them down even more.

Next, a sorting machine filters out any remaining large pieces Veolia also recycles non hazardous medical waste and some of that is mixed in with the blade material.

Cement factories burn the turbine blades for fuel, Veolia says their product burns cleaner than coal.

It probably won't make that much of a dent in the cement industry's carbon footprint, but it still prevents the blades from ending up in landfills.