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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As primary silver grades decline and solar demand surges, the industry must transition from viewing retired panels as waste to treating them as high-grade mineral reserves essential for the energy ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've been told for years that solar panels are the ultimate solution to our climate crisis. Clean, renewable, emissions-free energy straight from the sun. Sounds perfect, right? Here's the thing ...

Over the past two decades, California has become a juggernaut of solar energy production. But that doesn’t mean its residents are reaping huge benefits.A new analysis by Los Angeles Times staff writer ...

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 ...