Deepika Mathur has received research funding from the Northern Territory and federal governments. Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the ...

We've been told for years that solar panels are the ultimate solution to our climate crisis. Clean, renewable, emissions-free energy straight from the sun. Sounds perfect, right? Here's the thing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard ...

The global solar power boom, largely fueled by China's dominant manufacturing, is set to create a staggering 88 million tons of solar waste by 2050. Recycling solar panels remains costly and complex, ...

Australia's largest silver mine might not be underground. The country's discarded solar panels contain a lode of the precious metal that experts at Macquarie University said they can harvest with a ...

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 ...

The mainstream media may be finally waking up to the fact solar power isn’t as environmentally friendly as its promoters have claimed and as they have been largely uncritically reporting. Another ...

Australians are expected to throw away 90,000 tonnes of solar panel waste each year by 2030, a federal government hearing has ...

Following the sale of his previous company Guardian Data Destruction, an on-site electronic data destruction provider, Glenn Laga has co-founded Commercial Solar Panel Recycling, Phillipsburg, New ...

Discover how solar panel recycling works in the UK, what old panels may be worth and the disposal costs involved ...

China’s solar and wind boom is generating huge amounts of waste, but CHN Energy is building recycling systems to handle millions of tonnes.

The short lifetime of lead-acid batteries in solar home systems can significantly increase their life-cycle environmental impacts. Studies show that under such conditions, the global warming potential ...