Recycling solar panels is an expensive, complicated and energy-intensive process, writes energy fellow Rachel Meidl. But with cumulative solar waste projections expected to rise globally over the next few decades, she argues that it is vital to design a more circular and sustainable management system for end-of-life panels.
https://doi.org/10.25613/D721-VE78
Find her Forbes blog post summarizing the need to create systems for solar waste here.
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