“Don’t panic,” said Heather Mirletz at the Colorado School of Mines, lead author of a recent paper that challenges several assumptions about what could happen when today’s generation of solar panels ...

Many solar panels are being removed well before their end of life, generating waste ahead of time. This is rarely because they have stopped producing power. In our previous research, we found many ...

Workers push damaged solar pannels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona on December 6, 2023. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable ...

The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, “when talking about renewable energy, the topic of waste does not ...

Numerous factors continue to pull at the Renewables MMI (Monthly Metals Index) as it moves through Q1. This past month, the index largely moved sideways, only exhibiting a slight upward movement of ...

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The last few years have seen growing concern over what happens to solar panels at the end of their life. Consider the following statements: The problem of solar panel disposal “will explode with full ...

A recent study has found that India will generate over 11 million tonnes of solar waste by 2047 if it does not scale up ...

Ms. Folk admits that sustainability requires proper e-waste management. Yet she laments, “Solar presents a particular problem. There is growing evidence that broken panels release toxic pollutants … ...