Australia's rooftop solar revolution has slashed power bills and emissions, but behind the good news story, is a growing waste problem in need of an urgent solution. The industry is sounding the alarm ...

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 ...

Concerns over solar panel waste have long been part of the conversation around renewable energy, but new insight from an energy expert suggests the problem may not be as severe as some believe. In a ...

Dumping solar panels in landfill is an environmental disaster and a wasted opportunity. Now, a world-first research hub is ...

PV industry hits back at Coalition claims solar panels are made up of toxic materials that "will not recycle" and that reusing and recycling panels is an economic dead end.

Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest ...

University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers studied mitigation strategies to help keep solar panels out of landfill, and maximise their life span, by using techniques such as block chain-based ...

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

Comstock Metals LLC, a subsidiary of Comstock Inc., Virginia City, Nevada, was founded a little more than two years ago to provide full-service zero-landfill recycling of solar panels, including ...

With millions of solar power systems installed across the country, a national research centre will probe what to do with the panels at the end of their lives.

Sydney researchers in partnership with industry have launched a solar panel recycling hub to improve solar panel waste ...