1.3.6.1.4.1.615132d ago

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.

(This brought to you by ABC fearmongering)

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ABC reports 90,000 tonnes of solar panels in 2030 waste. The below chart represents disposed waste in 2022-2023 financial year - that is, waste that wasn't recycled. Note how high is textiles is compared to what solar panels are expected to be.
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Like taking the $24.7 million from this and putting that money into battery,solar,wind reducing the coal by products would probably have a better reduction on waste
Show threadjablkoziemne2d ago

@xssfox I dont understand.
You brought figure of 90000 tones of predicted waste from solar panels, and then provided chart that shows how much money is spent to dispose of waste by category.

How am I suposed to compare those two? Also isnt the chart only for money spent on unrecycled materials? What about the statistic for the ones tgat got sorted and recycled properly?

And how should i interpret the result then? Big money spent good or is it bad?

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@jablkoziemne the chart shows tonnes, not money. That money is for the recycling plant for solar panels
Show threadjablkoziemne2d ago
@xssfox oh, thanks.
But still i find it somewhat difficult to compare these two as I dont know how much % by material of solar panels gets recycled compared to not.
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@jablkoziemne you can assume none at the moment
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