{"id":18013,"date":"2021-09-08T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/?p=18013"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:49:05","slug":"solar-panel-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/solar-panel-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panel Recycling: The Ultimate Answer to the Solar Panel Waste Problem\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18013\" class=\"elementor elementor-18013\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88f08f2 lead-section elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88f08f2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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href=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/solar-panel-recycling\/#Making-the-Economy-Circular\" title=\"Making the Economy Circular\">Making the Economy Circular<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/solar-panel-recycling\/#Solar-Panel-Recycling-What-Comes-Next\" title=\"Solar Panel Recycling: What Comes Next?\">Solar Panel Recycling: What Comes Next?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-ca3eec6 right-column\" data-id=\"ca3eec6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d091abe author-bio elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"d091abe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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class=\"author-name\">Aniket<\/span><span class=\"written-by-period\">.<\/span> <span class=\"last-updated-text\">Last updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2021-09-08 16:49:05\">September 8, 2021<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4caed31 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4caed31\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b3770e9\" data-id=\"b3770e9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ff3f74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ff3f74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Solar photovoltaic is the technology that provides tremendous hope when it comes to solving the climate crisis. With solar <a href=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/solar-becomes-the-cheapest-power-source-for-most\/\">officially becoming the cheapest<\/a> technology, its widespread adoption is obvious. However, there is a downside. After their lifespan of 30 years, solar panels&#8217; power generation drops significantly &#8211; enough to make sense to simply discard them.<\/p>\n<p>With millions of panels installed every year, we will soon be left with gigantic amounts of solar panels that have no use. However, there is an opportunity in crisis. The International Renewable Energy Agency predicts that by 2050, we will be able to extract a whopping 78 million metric tons of valuable material from these solar panels if recycled correctly. And the absolute best thing? To inject these materials back into solar panel manufacturing.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Making-the-Economy-Circular\"><\/span>Making the Economy Circular<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/can-solar-panels-be-recycled\/\">Solar panel recycling<\/a> is not a new concept. Some countries and states even have legislation for mandatory recycling of panels. As time progresses and the amount of solar waste increases, these legislations will become more common \u2013 and for a good reason. Solar panels generally contain raw material that is non-decomposable and, to some extent, even harmful to the environment.<\/p>\n<p><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-\u2013-sstimated-pv-waste-increase.webp 624w,https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-\u2013-sstimated-pv-waste-increase-300x120.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-\u2013-sstimated-pv-waste-increase.png\" height=\"249\" width=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-\u2013-sstimated-pv-waste-increase.png 624w, https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-\u2013-sstimated-pv-waste-increase-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18018 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"image \u2013 sstimated pv waste increase\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  > <\/picture><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Image \u2013 Estimated PV waste increase (Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmatch.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-opportunities-of-solar-panel-recycling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greenmatch<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The materials that can be recycled in solar panels are mainly glass, metal, and silicon. However, conventional solar panel recycling focuses on extracting these materials and utilizing them in various industries. But one solar company has adopted a custom technology to disassemble panels and extract materials \u2013 to use them in their own solar panels again.<\/p>\n<p>In Ohio, one of the leading solar companies worldwide called First Solar has established a recycling plant right beside its panel manufacturing plant. The company claims to recycle 90% of the materials from end-of-life panels to use them again in their own new modules. First Solar also has similar recycling plants in Germany and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, if 95% of the semiconductor material can be recovered and put back in a solar panel, and the cycle continues to repeat, the same material could serve us for up to 1200 years \u2013 an astonishingly long duration. This would ease the pressure on mining for more silicon, saving resources, and reducing the relatively few emissions caused by solar panel manufacturing.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Solar-Panel-Recycling-What-Comes-Next\"><\/span>Solar Panel Recycling: What Comes Next?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18025\" src=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/outdoor-solar-field-e1605032029705.jpg\" alt=\"outdoor solar field\" width=\"740\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/outdoor-solar-field-e1605032029705.jpg 740w, https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/outdoor-solar-field-e1605032029705-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ecotality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/outdoor-solar-field-e1605032029705-354x174.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though solar panel recycling is not a novel concept, it has a few limitations. There is a significant gap in the numbers of module manufacturing plants and recycling plants. Often, end-of-life modules must be shipped to distant locations for recycling.<\/p>\n<p>The cost incurred in this transportation does not always make financial sense for the materials that get reused. To solve this problem, more recycling plants need to come up. If possible, as Andreas Wade of First Solar says, they should be mobile recycling plants.<\/p>\n<p>As new module manufacturing units come up, it would be a good idea to design and build module manufacturing and recycling units instead. Companies doing this might even have financial benefits in this model since they won\u2019t have to import raw materials from foreign destinations, which is normally the case. Of course, this would happen only when modules will be recycled in huge numbers, which, as we have discussed, is not so much in the distant future.<\/p>\n<p>Solar PV modules, whether they are regular panels or rugged, <a href=\"https:\/\/ecotality.com\/best-portable-solar-panels\/\">portable panels<\/a>, all have a specified lifespan. Although most panels are not near the end of their life, we must act with foresight. It will be wise to plan better for the huge amounts of waste solar will generate in the coming decades \u2013 and reusing the recycled materials into building solar panels might be the ultimate answer to the waste problem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-513533f post-rating-section elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"513533f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72f6be6\" data-id=\"72f6be6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f32531a post-rating elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"f32531a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><!-- Rate my Post Plugin --><div  class=\"rmp-widgets-container rmp-wp-plugin rmp-main-container js-rmp-widgets-container js-rmp-widgets-container--18013 \"  data-post-id=\"18013\">    <!-- Rating widget -->  <div class=\"rmp-rating-widget js-rmp-rating-widget\">          <p class=\"rmp-heading rmp-heading--title\">        We hope you liked this article. 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