In 2017, Washington passed into law a groundbreaking solar panel-recycling requirement. This legislation was the first of its kind. Only now are historically progressive states like California trying ...
As solar and wind power have taken off around the world, so has the backlash against the waste they generate when the equipment has to be retired. Stories about wind turbine graveyards and solar ...
The county adopted a new program to recycle solar panels, launched as a pilot in 2022. Residents can visit the I-66 Transfer Station or the I-95 Landfill Complex Electronics Recycling area, which ...
Workers push damaged solar pannels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona on December 6, 2023. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable ...
Solar panels contain myriad recyclable commodities, including aluminum, glass, copper, silver, plastics and silicon. Since 2023, SolarPanelRecycling.com, or SPR, has tried to put itself at the ...
SolarPanelRecycling.com (SPR) and the Solar Energy Industries Association are launching a partnership program with Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to establish convenient drop-off locations for ...
Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...
Anurag Srivastava receives funding from the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation to work on renewable energy integration into the grid. He is an IEEE Fellow and member of the IEEE ...
As Australia stares down a deluge of worn out solar panels, recycling – and indeed upcycling – programs are grinding into gear. In Victoria, a site has been found for Australia’s first facility to ...