Novel Recycling Process Could Redeem 99% Silver from Scrapped Solar Panels
University of New South Wales (UNSW) engineers have developed a more efficient recycling technique that allows them to redeem up to 99% of the silver in scrapped solar panels. This new method could potentially alleviate an issue that is sure to become more significant over the years: we still cannot reliably recycle old solar panels. As the world transitions from dirty fuels such as coal and oil to renewable energy, we will have to build up our solar-recycling capacity to deal with the impending influx of scrapped solar panels. UNSW researchers specifically developed this new recycling process to optimize the…