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natdavidson

Please share the recycling supply chain for solar panels

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- https://www.solrecycle.co.uk/

- https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/veolia-opens-new-facil...

- https://www.6wresearch.com/market-takeaways-view/top-solar-p...

- https://www.rosi-solar.com/

- https://solarstoragextra.com/five-companies-spearheading-sol...

- https://www.rec-pan.eu/

- https://aerisoul.com/

Apparently it's still mostly about Aluminum and Glass as that's 95% of the weight of panels. The silicon is often recycled for precious-metals recovery and not circular. ROSI does try to do high-purity recovery. It seems volumes are still on the smaller side, probably because most of the volume has been deployed in the last 5-10y and they have 20-30y life expectancy. Still a lot of recycling.

i can come up with a bunch of PET plastic research and companies too but go look at the state of oceans...

a primer on actual numbers of recyled solar panels [0] [1]

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12260433/

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09560...

stop eating startup and journalism headlines good intentions promises

In the EU solar panels old have to be taken back by the vendor for recycling (as all electronic waste).

They have to take it back, but that doesn't mean it's recycled.

They will have to get recycled at some point.

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