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How a Swiss Factory Recycles Solar Panels into New Ones
Millions of solar panels are reaching end-of-life, and most end up in landfills. But a factory in Switzerland has built a process that recovers 95 percent of the materials from old photovoltaic panels — including silver, silicon, and glass — and feeds them straight back into new panel production. In this episode, Lucas and Luna visit the Swiss plant run by startup SolCycle to understand how the recycling line works, why the economics are finally tipping in favor of recovery over disposal, and what this means for the trillion-dollar solar industry as it confronts its own waste problem…
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