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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The mainstream media may be finally waking up to the fact solar power isn’t as environmentally friendly as its promoters have claimed and as they have been largely uncritically reporting. Another ...

LAST month, the US Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) held its first-ever sustainability conference, and the meeting was dominated by a single question: What is to become of expired solar panels ...

Australia's rooftop solar revolution has slashed power bills and emissions, but behind the good news story, is a growing waste problem in need of an urgent solution. The industry is sounding the alarm ...

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 ...

In Texas, Solarcycle mines old solar panels for their materials. In Georgia, it’s building a factory to turn recycled solar glass into glass for new panels. Until recently, when a solar panel reached ...

Using recycled materials instead of freshly mined ones could help India avoid 37 million tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2047.

Following the sale of his previous company Guardian Data Destruction, an on-site electronic data destruction provider, Glenn Laga has co-founded Commercial Solar Panel Recycling, Phillipsburg, New ...

University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers studied mitigation strategies to help keep solar panels out of landfill, and maximise their life span, by using techniques such as block chain-based ...