How Solar Panel Waste Is Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future

29 May 2023 | Abstracted from Medium

"The optimal solution for this luring problem would be to recycle panels completely by recovering materials. These materials can then be used to create new solar panels and reduce their cost. But currently, only a small portion of solar panels is recycled

"The extracted materials can be put to good use in many different ways... waste materials can replace virgin materials that may be scarce, they can replace environmentally unfriendly materials such as concrete..."

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