Solar power has a dark side: panels are still built to be thrown away, and we risk creating a mountain of waste that locks ...

A new Department of Energy-funded research project seeks to solve one of the biggest challenges with solar power — what to do with solar panels after they die. Solar energy is key to solving climate ...

Solar power is racing ahead as one of the cheapest ways to cut emissions, but the industry is quietly stockpiling a future ...

Orsted, a Denmark-based clean energy company with a North American headquarters in Boston, has announced a partnership with Odessa, Texas-based solar recycling company Solarcycle to process and ...

In February, non-profit EU solar panel recycling body PV Cycle announced it had collected 5,000 tons of modules in France, of which 94.7% could be recycled. A reader asked us about the remaining 5.3% ...

The Los Angeles Times published a report Thursday detailing the "environmental danger" of expired solar panels on the environment. "California has been a pioneer in pushing for rooftop solar power, ...

Discover what happens to old solar panels and how solar panel recycling in Australia is shaping a cleaner, circular energy future.

Bangladesh is set to see a rising volume of waste from solar photo-voltaic panels in the coming years, which in the absence of absence of proper disposal and management pose risks to the environment ...

Disposal of used solar panels is expected to be a big problem in Japan in the coming decade after solar power generation spread rapidly following a huge nuclear disaster in 2011. Many panels have been ...