The Nevada company’s thermal process decomposes plastic components in solar panels and recovers 100% of useful materials.

making it difficult to disassemble and recycle them. Japan is already scrambling for ways to reuse its mounting inventory of solar-panel waste, which is expected to exceed 10,000 tons by 2020 and ...

“Our method can be applied to all silicon-based solar panels,” researcher Ady Suwardi ... which makes them particularly suitable for recycled silicon, which is uneconomical to recycle due ...