{"id":134822,"date":"2024-10-23T07:57:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/through-the-roof-how-a-brisbane-shed-is-turning-old-solar-panels-into-silver-and-copper\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T07:57:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:57:34","slug":"through-the-roof-how-a-brisbane-shed-is-turning-old-solar-panels-into-silver-and-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/through-the-roof-how-a-brisbane-shed-is-turning-old-solar-panels-into-silver-and-copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the roof: how a Brisbane shed is turning old solar panels into silver and copper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>In a 50m shed south of Brisbane, solar panels are being turned into silver and copper. Photovoltaic panels no longer capable of producing electricity are having their aluminium and wires removed before being ground up and refined into plastic, glass, silicon, silver and copper. So far, nothing has gone to waste. The Pan Pacific Recycling director, John Hill, says recovering the materials, with no toxic fumes and nothing going to landfill, is a \u201cbig game changer to the whole industry worldwide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Associate professor Penelope Crossley, who researches energy law at the University of Sydney, says without a national stewardship scheme there is no incentive to reuse or recycle solar, and sending panels to the tip is often the cheapest option. Australia is already a world-leader in rooftop solar, installing new systems at 10 times the global rate. There are about 90 million panels on rooftops, she says. \u201cWhen those solar systems reach end-of-life, current estimates are that 90% of those systems [will] go to landfill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuse is supported by a mobile rapid test rig, developed in collaboration with CSIRO, that tests a solar panel\u2019s electrical and mechanical condition in under 60 seconds \u2013 and at a cost of just a few dollars. When solar panels arrive at Pan Pacific\u2019s pilot facility \u2013 part of the Smart Energy Council\u2019s solar stewardship program and supported by funding from the Queensland government \u2013 they are initially sorted for reuse, before broken and end-of-life panels are recycled. The Smart Energy Council is calling for a mandatory national stewardship scheme \u2013 to maximise reuse and recycling, and to prevent replaced and discarded panels going to landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/oct\/23\/australia-renewable-energy-solar-waste\"> Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/4-614\/\">Through the roof: how a Brisbane shed is turning old solar panels into silver and copper<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16611,575,764,6838],"class_list":["post-134822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brisbane","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-recycling","tag-solar-panel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}