In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels ...

Solar skeptics have long warned that panels would fade fast, leaving homeowners with expensive glass and little power. Three ...

In Texas, Solarcycle mines old solar panels for their materials. In Georgia, it’s building a factory to turn recycled solar glass into glass for new panels. Until recently, when a solar panel reached ...

Inside a noisy industrial plant on the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona, there's a machine that smashes old solar panels into bits. It can handle 10 panels a minute, as many as 7,500 a day, extracting bits ...

As we transition to a green economy, we’re generating waste that, if we aren’t careful, isn’t so green. We looked at barriers and opportunities around three of the most challenging types of clean ...

Their sleek curves offer the first clue that the half dozen benches scattered around downtown Tehachapi aren’t run-of-the-mill spots for the public to sit. Plaques on those benches say, “I’m Gus made ...

Discover what happens to old solar panels and how solar panel recycling in Australia is shaping a cleaner, circular energy ...

YUMA — Adam Saghei walks among hundreds of discarded solar panels, collecting dust instead of power under the relentless Arizona sun at the We Recycle Solar facility. The rows of stacked panels ...