The race is on to establish a solar panel recycling industry before the renewable energy source's green credentials go to waste.
Wagga Wagga-based company receives a grant to establish a new recycling processIn New South Wales, it is estimated that old solar panels and batteries could generate up to 30,000 tonnes of waste a year by 2035.
With only a handful of suitable recycling facilities around the country, most panels will end up in landfill. Victoria has banned panels from being dumped in landfills; the Clean Energy Council's Darren Gladman said he would like to see other states follow. "It's too cheap and too easy to just throw a panel into a landfill, it's harder to recycle a panel," he said.However, Mr Gladman said he hoped the establishment of a viable solar panel recycling industry would make such bans redundant."Then we'll know it's going to be possible for everyone to recycle, there'll be no excuses."
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