The Dark Side of Solar Power.
“Solar energy is a rapidly growing market, which should be good news for the environment. Unfortunately there’s a catch. The replacement rate of solar panels is faster than expected and given the current very high recycling costs, there’s a real danger that all used panels will go straight to landfill (along with equally hard-to-recycle…”
[COMMENTARY] Recycling solar panels has long been a major concern of mine regarding solar power. The firms in the business have to get behind solutions or see their business potentially ‘dwindle.’
The Dark Side of Solar Power, by Atalay Atasu, Serasu Duran, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove, June 18, 2021, Harvard Business Review, USA.