The true scale of solar panel waste

“Energy experts are calling for urgent government action to prevent a looming global environmental disaster,” warned a BBC news article earlier this year. The potential ‘environmental disaster’ they refer to is waste solar panels, and stories about them are very common.

You’ve probably seen them. If the journalist is being lazy, they probably called it ‘clean energy’s dirty secret’ – a headline that practically every news outlet has run at some point as if they were the first to think of it....