{"id":49816,"date":"2023-05-16T18:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49816"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:37:06","slug":"north-america-first-utility-scale-solar-recycling-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49816","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how North America’s first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Recycle Solar is deploying new machinery and technology to quadruple its processing capacity to 522 million pounds per year by 2028.<\/p>\n

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We Recycle Solar, which is permitted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to handle hazardous secondary materials that come from solar panels, removes, decommissions, recycles, and processes the panels for reuse.<\/p>\n

Founded in August 2019, the company<\/a> has recycled or remarketed more than 500,000 end-of-life solar panels to date, diverting 23 million pounds of hazardous solar panel waste from landfills. It says its 75,000-square-foot Yuma, Arizona, factory currently has the capacity to process 7,500 modules, or 345,000 pounds, for recycling and reuse in a day and 69 million pounds in a single year.<\/p>\n

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We Recycle Solar CEO Adam Saghei explains its latest upgrade: <\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve not only increased processing speed and volume capacity enough to tackle roughly 25% of the current national need for recycling \u2013 we\u2019ve also expanded our specialized solar handling teams, resulting in a breakage reduction of up to 30% at the time of decommissioning, which significantly increases the amount of PV panels we\u2019re able to repurpose for the resale market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The company claims it now has the \u201chighest processing capacity in the nation, with the ability to process panels of every make and model, from any manufacturer, including those that are severely damaged, at a rate of up to 10 panels per minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EPA reports<\/a> that \u201cby 2030, the United States\u00a0is expected to have as much as 1 million total tons of solar panel waste. For comparison, the\u00a0total generation of US municipal solid waste in 2018 was 292.4 million tons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out We Recycle Solar\u2019s panel recycling process in this short video below:<\/p>\n

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