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Is anyone tracking what happens to solar equipment at end of life?

omar_hassanContributor··2 views
We install a lot of panels and batteries. In ten years they become waste and I have not seen a plan anywhere.

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kwame_boatengContributor·
Batteries are the urgent part, panels are the slow one. We are already seeing dead lead-acid units dumped, and nobody funded a collection route.
nurul_ahmadContributor·
This is a good example of an environmental programme creating a waste problem it does not count.
omar_hassanContributor·
kwame_boateng: Batteries are the urgent part, panels are the slow one. We are already seeing dead lead-acid units dumped, and nobody funded a collection ro...
A collection route is fundable on its own. That might be the project.

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