[RE-wrenches] PV waste problem

[Michael Welch]

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Eric Stikes wrote at 09:09 AM 4/20/2019:
 
>As many of you may know, the PV industry is beginning to experience a massive solid waste problem. According to my sources, as well as sources such as the California DTSC, the CA PUC, NREL, and the U.S. EIA, the U.S. is and/or will soon be experiencing a waste stream of around 15 million modules going to landfill every year (not including all the BOS). In CA, both the PUC and DTSC held webinar meetings over the past 2 weeks to discuss this impending topic (I have summary notes if anyone wants to know what was discussed and what the outcomes were).
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>As industry professionals, we need to have a candid conversation about sustainability in the renewable energy industry, about the status-quo's linear take-make-use-lose model versus what we need to develop: a circular economy.