{"id":70918,"date":"2025-02-06T06:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/abovecapricorn-recycling-pv-panels-an-emerging-issue\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T06:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:01:47","slug":"abovecapricorn-recycling-pv-panels-an-emerging-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=70918","title":{"rendered":"AboveCapricorn: Recycling PV Panels &#8211; An Emerging Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<head>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/static\/v1\/widgets\/55013136-widget_css_bundle.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\"\/>\n<meta content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"blogger\" name=\"generator\"\/>\n<link href=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/favicon.ico\" rel=\"icon\" type=\"image\/x-icon\"\/>\n<link href=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/recycling-pv-panels-emerging-issue.html\" rel=\"canonical\"\/>\n<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/atom+xml\" title=\"AboveCapricorn - Atom\" href=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default\"\/>\n<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\" title=\"AboveCapricorn - RSS\" href=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss\"\/>\n<link rel=\"service.post\" type=\"application\/atom+xml\" title=\"AboveCapricorn - Atom\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/36976850\/posts\/default\"\/>\n<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/atom+xml\" title=\"AboveCapricorn - Atom\" href=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3198618582158874731\/comments\/default\"\/>\n<!--Can't find substitution for tag [blog.ieCssRetrofitLinks]--><br \/>\n<meta content=\"http:\/\/abovecapricorn.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/recycling-pv-panels-emerging-issue.html\" property=\"og:url\"\/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Recycling PV Panels - An Emerging Issue\" property=\"og:title\"\/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"Using PV panels is relatively new and with an expected life of 25 years or more you could be expected to think how to handle disposal is far...\" property=\"og:description\"\/><br \/>\n<title>AboveCapricorn: Recycling PV Panels &#8211; An Emerging Issue<\/title><\/p>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/dyn-css\/authorization.css?targetBlogID=36976850&amp;zx=bfe5767c-b4b0-4e8c-a957-bc29ebde58a4\" media=\"none\" onload=\"if(media!='all')media='all'\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/><noscript><link href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/dyn-css\/authorization.css?targetBlogID=36976850&amp;zx=bfe5767c-b4b0-4e8c-a957-bc29ebde58a4\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/><\/noscript><br \/>\n<meta name=\"google-adsense-platform-account\" content=\"ca-host-pub-1556223355139109\"\/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"google-adsense-platform-domain\" content=\"blogspot.com\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n<body id=\"wp_automatic_ReadabilityBody\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"outer-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"wrap2\">\n<!-- skip links for text browsers --><br \/>\n<span id=\"skiplinks\" style=\"display:none;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"#main\">skip to main <\/a> |<br \/>\n      <a href=\"#sidebar\">skip to sidebar<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"main section\" id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"widget Blog\" data-version=\"1\" id=\"Blog1\">\n<div class=\"blog-posts hfeed\">\n<div class=\"date-outer\">\n<div class=\"date-posts\">\n<div class=\"post-outer\">\n<div class=\"post hentry uncustomized-post-template\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\">\n<meta content=\"36976850\" itemprop=\"blogId\"\/><br \/>\n<meta content=\"3198618582158874731\" itemprop=\"postId\"\/><br \/>\n<a name=\"3198618582158874731\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\">\nRecycling PV Panels &#8211; An Emerging Issue<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\" id=\"post-body-3198618582158874731\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Using PV panels is relatively new and with an expected life of 25 years or more you could be expected to think how to handle disposal is far into the future.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Maybe so, but there are places where PV use is much older and some are now close to end of life.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">A recent article in Scientific American explores some issue for the effective recycling of materials in PV panels and we should also be planning for this in Australia.\u00a0 It is now not adequate to just dump the panels &#8211; they contain valuable metals and other resources including glass suitable for reuse.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Read the article here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/the-downside-of-solar-energy\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly-review&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_term=2019-12-04_featured-this-week\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/the-downside-of-solar-energy\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly-review&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_term=2019-12-04_featured-this-week<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">What are your thoughts?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Surely we can learn from existing failures to plan for disposal of products, and there are a monster number of PV panels going to require recycling over time and more thoughtful manufacturing might also be a useful advance, ensuring recycling is easier than now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end content-wrapper -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end outer-wrapper --><\/p>\n<p><\/body>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AboveCapricorn: Recycling PV Panels &#8211; An Emerging Issue skip to main | skip to sidebar Recycling PV Panels &#8211; An Emerging Issue Using PV panels is relatively new and with an expected life of 25 years or more you could be expected to think how to handle disposal is far into the future. 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