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 ...

Australia's largest silver mine might not be underground. The country's discarded solar panels contain a lode of the precious metal that experts at Macquarie University said they can harvest with a ...

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 ...

Concerns over solar panel waste have long been part of the conversation around renewable energy, but new insight from an energy expert suggests the problem may not be as severe as some believe. In a ...

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 ...

Solar energy has become one of the most celebrated technologies of our time. It’s clean, quiet, and powered by something that feels endless: the sun. Panels now stretch across rooftops, deserts, ...

It’s coming out much more than we thought. In a few years, it will be difficult to handle.” A representative from a domestic ...

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 ...

There are very few options available to people to dispose of old solar panels. The government has announced a national solar panel recycling pilot to prevent them becoming toxic waste in landfill.