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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Royce Kurmelovs

Australian research finds cost-effective way to recycle solar panels

PV solar panels on a house roof with green hills in the background
Currently Australia has very little capacity to process and recycle solar panels when they reach the end of their life span. Photograph: Ashley Cooper pics/Alamy

New research has proposed a cost-effective way to recycle solar panels to help handle an increasing volume of retired photovoltaic (PV) cells expected by the end of the decade.

In a paper published by a team from the University of New South Wales last week, researchers outlined a process to collect and extract valuable materials from solar arrays to see if it was technically, economically and environmentally feasible.

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