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If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?

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If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste?
May 26, 2018
 

By Paul Homewood

 

From Forbes, the story of a looming environmental problem:
 
The last few years have seen growing concern over what happens to solar panels at the end of their life. Consider the following statements:

    The problem of solar panel disposal “will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment” because it “is a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.”
    “The reality is that there is a problem now, and it’s only going to get larger, expanding as rapidly as the PV industry expanded 10 years ago.”
    “Contrary to previous assumptions, pollutants such as lead or carcinogenic cadmium can be almost completely washed out of the fragments of solar modules over a period of several months, for example by rainwater.”


https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/

IsailedawayfromFR:
Algore missed this one during his Inconvenient Truth tour

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