A 12-year industry roadmap has been unveiled to address the rising amount of solar panel waste headed for the tip
Experts are calling for recycling centres, new technologies to extract valuable metals and a product stewardship scheme for photovoltaics to cut solar panel waste.Experts are calling for recycling centres, new technologies to extract valuable metals and a product stewardship scheme for photovoltaics to cut solar panel waste.
The white paper outlined a 12-year industry roadmap, which included developing sophisticated technologies to extract valuable metals, establishing recycling centres in various metropolitan areas, and the development of a product stewardship scheme for photovoltaics. She said Australia lacked a “strong recycling infrastructure”, and attributed this to waste being exported to China prior to 2016.
Renate Egan, the executive director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics based at the University of NSW, said previous predictions did not consider that two-thirds of Australian solar panels were installed on residential rooftops, and were frequently replaced. One in three Australian homes generate solar energy, the
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