Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...

Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Ariz., hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. Plans to address climate change rely on massively scaling up clean ...

In Texas, Solarcycle mines old solar panels for their materials. In Georgia, it’s building a factory to turn recycled solar glass into glass for new panels. Until recently, when a solar panel reached ...

MARION—As the call to go green continues, and solar panels appear more and more on housetops and in fields, what happens in a quarter century when all those panels expire and become heaps of useless ...

The largest solar panel recycling plant in North America opened just as the flow of used and spent solar panels sharply ramps up. Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, ...

Solar panels made in the US’s largest silicon-based solar panel factory will now be recycled, thanks to a new partnership. February 15: It’s been a helluva week for solar recycling company SOLARCYCLE.

BiLight Innovations introduced one of the most visually striking solar concepts at CES 2026 with its rollable perovskite ...

Relatively new recycling outfit Comstock Metals announced it has received permission from Nevada environmental departments to ...

Once fully operational, the plant will be able to recycle 10 million solar panels per year, nearly 25-30% of the US retired solar panels by 2030. Image: Solarcycle. US-based PV recycling firm ...

It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks ...

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 ...