In the coming decade, millions of solar panels will become waste but there is no coherent policy on sustainable disposal.

On millions of American roofs, a solar panel is steadily doing exactly what it was sold to do. It turns sunlight into power, asks for almost nothing, and keeps the electricity bill low year after year ...

Flexible perovskite solar cells get a greener future as Japanese scientists recover 99.7% of their toxic lead.

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 ...

As solar installations age, discarded panels are becoming a bigger waste problem worldwide. But a new recycling method ...

Australia’s solar success story is now entering a new phase. After more than a decade of rapid deployment, we are beginning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comstock Metals LLC, a subsidiary of Comstock Inc., Virginia City, Nevada, was founded a little more than two years ago to provide full-service zero-landfill recycling of solar panels, including ...

Nanyang Technological University researchers have milled solar panel glass waste for use in cathodes used in solid state lithium metal batteries. When used as a functional filler in solid polymer ...