Solar waste may reach 1.2 GW annually in Australia

A new report has called for large PV waste and recycling facilities to be established in major Australian cities as a matter of priority with solar waste predicted to reach 100,000 tonnes annually, equivalent to 1. 2 GW per year, by the end of the decade. From pv magazine Australia Researchers from the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say the nation's solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought with a new report contradicting earlier findings that significant volumes of PV waste would not appear until at least ...

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