Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Solar energy is good news for planet Earth – but solar panels are not as climate-friendly as they should be. Researcher Martin Bellmann is using what he calls the ‘black gold’ waste ...

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 ...

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Having sat in many community hearings about solar power development, I am used to vivid descriptions of how photovoltaic panels might as well be dripping with harmful substances that will sicken ...

EPA first issued the universal waste rule in 1995 to streamline the regulatory requirements for the collection and transport of certain ubiquitous hazardous wastes, and thereby facilitate ...

Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation’s solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought ...

Discover what happens to old solar panels and how solar panel recycling in Australia is shaping a cleaner, circular energy future.

Solar panel installations hit a total 629 GW last year--an increase of 12 percent from 2018. It was also a lot—really a lot—of panels. And in a few years, these panels could become a major waste ...

Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest ...

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 … ...