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Perhaps I should have clarified. Solar panels can not be recycled profitably, so in practice they go to landfills.

Sure there are niche recycling firms that lose money doing so, but they’re the extreme rarity vs the norm.

Here’s a nice article about it from MIT: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/can-solar-panels-be-recycled



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