Solar power's clean image hides a big crisis: up to 250 million tonnes of solar panel waste may overwhelm the planet if ...

Australia's rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

University of South Australia (UniSA) researchers studied mitigation strategies to help keep solar panels out of landfill, and maximise their life span, by using techniques such as block chain-based ...

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

Macquarie University has licensed breakthrough silver extraction technology to ASX-listed Lithium Universe in a partnership that could transform how Australia recycles solar panels. The silver trapped ...