Mastodawn

Solar panel waste is not something you need to concern yourself with. Even if people are upgrading panels after 10 years this waste is insignificant compared to sooooooooo many things. Recycling materials in solar panels is probably a good idea, but it's not something to stop you getting panels today.

If waste is a concern for you, you should be switching to solar panels since they produce so little waste compared to other energies like coal. Like hundreds of times less. You probably should be caring more about, tires, mattresses, single use plastics, vapes, the packaging everything comes before solar panels.

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';DROP TABLE foxes;--1d ago

@xssfox They should just burn the used solar panels, and put the waste into the air, just like coal.

But really, the "logistics problem" is that they're simply not worth recycling. They're magic. A layer of silicon (sand, not rare!) less than the thickness of a hair, micrograms of dopant, glass, plastic, and a little aluminium, and it makes electricity.

It makes about as much sense as a scheme to gather empty cereal boxes and refill. If you buried in landfill, nothing bad would come out.

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nick

@DropTableFoxes @xssfox yup and anyway there was an article just yesterday I think saying that 25yo polycrystalline cells are still making useful amounts of power ... it's simply not true that at the end of 10 years the cells are all used up and ready to throw away.

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s0 Is Not A Sysadmin 1d ago

@nickzoic @DropTableFoxes @xssfox abc reporters stop being pathologically addicted to credulous clickbait fearmongering in service of the very evils you claim to oppose challenge