We've been told for years that solar panels are the ultimate solution to our climate crisis. Clean, renewable, emissions-free ...

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 ...

The average lifespan of solar panels is about 25 to 30 years, but they were not designed to be repaired, refurbished or disassembled ...

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 ...

Australia is on the brink of a solar panel waste crisis. Experts say there's much to do before a national recycling program ...

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 Australian government will pump almost $25 million into a national solar panel recycling program in a bid to reduce ...

India's rapid solar energy expansion is widely hailed as a success. But without a plan to manage the waste it will generate, how clean is the transition? In just over a decade, India has become the ...

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 ...

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

A national trial will recycle solar panels at the end of their working lives to extract valuable metals and boost Australia's ...