Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash

At a typical e-waste facility, this high-tech sandwich will be treated crudely. Recyclers often take off the panel’s frame and its junction box to recover the aluminum and copper, then shred the rest of the module, including the glass, polymers, and silicon cells, which get coated in a silver electrode and soldered using tin and […]

from Newslanes https://ift.tt/34r7XY2