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Solar Panel Waste: A Disposal Problem
December 23, 2018

The last few years have seen growing concern over what happens to solar panels at the end of their life. Consider the following statements:
– The problem of solar panel disposal will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment because it is a huge amount of waste which is not easy to recycle.
– Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants. If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the wastes are stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (53 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/23/solar-panel-waste-a-disposal-problem/
If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
... today recycling costs more than the economic value of the materials recovered, which is why most solar panels end up in landfills.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/

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Massive warehouses filled with recyclable materials that no one wants

August 8, 2019

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/massive-warehouses-filled-with-recyclable-materials-that-no-one-wants-20190808-p52f2o.html

Solar Waste will not be much better !!!
Watch this Space !!
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