Yeah but they arent giving tonnages of how much they recycle on the panels that arent even end of life yet….The discussion started with a comment about First Solar.
First Solar currently claim to operate their recycling plants in a number of countries.
If they take their solar waste from Australia to their plant in Malaysia , that is not outsourcing.
If they are lying i'd suggest that they are risking more legal action from shareholders. ( So they probably aren't ).
Of course if you are a smaller operation, it is likely you'd need to outsource?
Do you recycle your own household waste or outsource?
Do the councils own recycling facilities?
Does a machine shop have scrap metal facilities?
Why is anyone surprised that outsourcing is a big thing?
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World-Class Recycling First Solar has a long-standing leadership position in PV recycling, having voluntarily established the industry’s first global program over a decade ago. It currently operates high-value PV recycling facilities in the United States, Germany, Malaysia and Vietnam that recover approximately 90 percent of the materials in each recycled First Solar module. This not only translates into commonly-used glass, rubber, and plastic products; it creates a regenerative source of CadTel.
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- man who holds renewable to standards so far past fossil fuels and nuclear but likes to present himself as if hes the only one whos reasonable and rational about this.