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 ...

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

Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...

The growing importance of wind and solar energy to the U.S. power grid, and the rise of electric vehicles, are all key to the nation's growing need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, lower carbon ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency predicts by the end of the decade, the country will have more than a million tons of solar panel waste. That number is set to increase tenfold by 2050. So what ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.—What happens when a solar panel dies? The vexing question hung last week over the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) sustainability conference, the first of its kind for the ...

Comstock Metals LLC, a subsidiary of Comstock Inc., Virginia City, Nevada, was founded a little more than two years ago to provide full-service zero-landfill recycling of solar panels, including ...

Macquarie University has licensed breakthrough silver extraction technology to ASX-listed Lithium Universe in a partnership that could transform how Australia recycles solar panels. The silver trapped ...

India's rapid renewable energy expansion, particularly in solar power, is predicted to generate over 11 million tonnes of waste by 2047.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) It’s hard work soaking ...