The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is utilizing a Request for Information (RFI) to gather formal industry feedback that will ...

As the United States prepares for an influx of end-of-life solar panels in the coming years, companies across the country are working to scale recycling solutions to avoid a major waste crisis.

Old damaged solar panels on the roof of a house. - Adam Bartosik/Getty Images By 2024, the U.S. had exceeded five million residential solar installations. That number is expected to reach 10 million ...

The global solar power boom, largely fueled by China's dominant manufacturing, is set to create a staggering 88 million tons of solar waste by 2050. Recycling solar panels remains costly and complex, ...

VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Inc. (NYSE American: LODE) announced today that its subsidiary, Comstock Metals LLC (“Comstock Metals”), a pioneer in sustainable, ...

LAST month, the US Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) held its first-ever sustainability conference, and the meeting was dominated by a single question: What is to become of expired solar panels ...

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. The world already faces up to 250 million tonnes of ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has developed a process to use solar panel glass waste as a raw material for cathodes in solid-state lithium metal batteries. By ...

Researchers at MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU) have developed a scalable recycling process to address India’s growing solar PV waste challenge. The process has been validated through laboratory ...