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"Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Arizona,
hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. The great majority
of worn and damaged panels are still dumped in landfills. But with more and
more piling up, many people know that needs to change.
In this desert city where Arizona, California, Sonora and Baja California meet,
North America’s first utility-scale solar panel recycling plant has opened to
address what founders of We Recycle Solar call a “tsunami” of solar waste.
Plans to address climate change rely on massively scaling up clean, solar
electricity.
The panels, stacked and banded, come here from the company’s main collection
warehouse in Hackettstown, New Jersey, plus six other locations across the
country.
Workers maneuver the stacks into the sprawling 75,000 square foot facility on
forklifts, then gently lift each out by hand to begin separating by brand and
model. Some only have a few cracks in their glass, sometimes from storm damage.
These can be reused, said Adam Saghei, CEO of We Recycle Solar, and there is a
market for them — clients around the world who search for refurbished panels
for their affordability. The Yuma facility, he says, is like “your local thrift
store that looks to upcycle.”
Some have been sold for example at the store Mercados Solar in Carolina, Puerto
Rico."
Via
The Fixer August 9, 2023:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/black-climbers-community-oakland/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
