Until recently, when a solar panel reached the end of its useful life—after 25 or 30 years—it probably ended up in a landfill. Any valuable materials inside it were lost. But that’s quickly changing.

Ageing solar panels should be reused rather than recycled to avoid a significant electronic waste problem looming in Australia, a study has found. While industry sources and governments would need to ...

Solar energy has long been considered to have great potential and solar panels based on silicon have been on the market for over 30 years. But first-generation silicon solar panels are at the end of ...