Home solar panels don't last forever and can have hazardous materials. When the time comes to replace an old system, you need ...

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 ...

Millions of end-of-life solar panels are being decommissioned within the next couple of years. Researchers, start-ups, and governments are looking to create an industry for recycling solar panels, not ...

Having sat in many community hearings about solar power development, I am used to vivid descriptions of how photovoltaic panels might as well be dripping with harmful substances that will sicken ...

The global shift towards sustainability is accelerating, with the solar energy sector playing a crucial role in this ...

Both solar power and wind power have grown at a remarkable rate in the last decade, and as these industries grow the waste associated with them also grows. There is currently no comprehensive plan for ...

US EPA recently announced the intention to revise the federal universal waste regulatory framework under the Resource Conservation and Recovery ...

The fastest energy change in history is underway. New solar PV generation capacity is being deployed faster than everything else put together. The price of PV continues to fall, and PV is essentially ...

Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation’s solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought ...

A research team from UNIST has unveiled a novel technology capable of extracting hydrogen (H₂) stored in ammonia (NH₃) by ...

Africa's renewable energy revolution needs careful management to avoid a toxic waste crisis, to prevent people from burning ...

In the European Union, solar panels fall under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment or the WEEE Directive, which makes manufacturers financially responsible for collecting and recycling ...