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Solar Panels are Becoming Harder to Recycle

September 5, 2018

Via: Waste360

According to Forbes, new innovations in technology are making solar panels more difficult to recycle. As demand increases for solar panels, there is an even greater need for recycling panels that end up damaged or fall short of their warrantied performance.

In an effort to save costs, manufacturers have cut down on using silver to build solar panels, which could end up impacting their recycling rate. And though silver makes up a small portion of the mass of a solar panel, it comprises 47 percent of its value. Scientists believe that the omission of silver in solar panels could drive more and more aging panels to end up in landfills.

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