A startup in Jacksonville, Florida, has a new way to recycle solar panels to recover the majority of materials that went into them, Canary Media reported.
OnePlanet Solar Recycling has been running a pilot facility and just finished a seed round of funding to collect $90 million for a full-scale plant to be completed in 2027. There, it will process 2 million broken solar modules per year, with plans to upgrade to process 6 million.
That’s good news, because until now, discarded solar panels have presented a bit of a problem. The technology itself is vital to low-cost, clean energy plans for the future, as it generates free electricity for decades without causing air pollution like dirty energy sources. The world needs to do that if we want to get control of the planet’s rising temperature.
The problem is, solar panels are hard to recycle effectively. They’re made up of a number of different materials that are…
