A staggering 7 to 8 billion solar panels have been deployed globally—but up to 90% of them are currently on a direct trajectory toward disposal.
While modern solar panels are technically made of roughly 95% recyclable materials (glass, aluminum, copper, and silicon), recycling currently runs at a steep economic loss.
* The cost: Processing runs $500–$1,000 per tonne ($10 to $40 per panel).
* The yield: The value of recovered materials doesn't even cover the transport fees.
Compared with minimal landfill fees, economics dictate that burial is the default option. But the world is rapidly running out of room, and governments are beginning to panic.
We are already seeing a preview of this crisis in the wind sector, where an expected 43 million tonnes of turbine blade waste by 2050 has led several European nations—including Austria, Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands—to actively ban decommissioned blades from landfills.
Solar is hitting the same wall. Panels built over two decades ago are reaching the end of their 20-to-24-year lifespans, while many more become economically obsolete and are replaced long before that.
This has created a massive regulatory catch-22: To prevent heavy metals like lead and cadmium from potentially leaching into groundwater, jurisdictions like Victoria, Australia, have implemented strict bans on putting solar panels into landfills, classifying them as hazardous e-waste.
Yet, with recycling remaining economically non-viable, we are creating an impossible bottleneck. While industry bodies like the IEA maintain that leaching risks from broken panels are negligible and within safety limits, the sheer volume of impending waste tells a different story.
If it costs too much to recycle, and it is illegal to landfill, where do several billions of panels go?
The 'clean energy' solution is rapidly staring down the barrel of a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.
Image: Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined - Shutterstock.
Luke Salmons was suspended for six months then forced to resign & was put on a police barring list for questioning radical Islam in a Police training session.
More Police need to speak out.
I’m not saying China is deliberately pushing the West into these batshit net-zero leftist fantasies to gut their industry and make them totally dependent on Chinese manufacturing.
But if they were, what would they be doing differently?
@justdavenow89@NemesisDivina5 LIE... KEIR has had 26 community NOTES, those a lies.
KEIR has lied from day 1, there was never a black hole.
Keir has always blamed someone else for what he is accused of.
STRAIGHT out of the NAZI playbook
Keir Starmer Boasts About Giving Away 10 Million Free Breakfasts
“We’ve just hit another really important milestone. 10 million free breakfasts at our free breakfast clubs. And that’s bringing families and children together across the country.”
They’re not free though, are they? They’re paid for by hard-working taxpayers.
While families struggle with high taxes, energy bills, and the cost of living, Keir Starmer is celebrating 10 million free school breakfasts, that’s likely £20–30 million and rising, taken straight from our pockets.
Why exactly should people grinding away at work every day be forced to subsidise breakfast for kids who aren’t theirs?
Parents have a responsibility to feed their own children.
This isn’t “investing in the next generation” it’s expanding the welfare state and normalising the idea that the government (i.e. you and me) should pick up the tab for basic parenting.
If we keep going down this road, what’s next? Free dinners, free holidays, free everything? Enough. Taxpayers aren’t bottomless ATMs.
@Sausageandeggx@Waltika Interesting fact: one of the men is being assessed for work placements already. He is expected to get parole shortly.
The other three main culprits are eligible for parole in 2028, 2029 and 2031.
They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.
🚨🇬🇧Let me introduce you to Young Bob. He is a 17 year old British version of Charlie Kirk.
I’ve followed young Bob myself for well over a year. Almost 2, and he always comes across with a wealth of intelligence far beyond his years.
He has been attacked by Muslims and lefties on numerous occasions, and I came across this interview he gave in Southampton 2 nights ago. Absolutely magnificently put Bob 👏🏻. Hats off to you sunshine.
Follow Young Bob on all socials.
I remember the first question in my interview to become a British police officer:
“What does diversity mean to you?”
It was followed by several more questions about diversity.
Looking back, that probably tells you everything you need to know about why public confidence in policing is where it is today.
Me 15 years ago ⬇️😂
Keir Starmer is milking Henry Nowak’s death for every ounce of political capital it’s worth.
He summoned a grieving family to the most photographed doorstep in Britain and let them walk that gauntlet of cameras alone — arriving and leaving in the full glare, with no one beside them.
If this were really about Henry, Starmer would have gone to them. Quietly. To Hampshire. No press, no podium, no performance.
Instead, he turned their grief into a backdrop.
That’s not leadership. It’s cheap politics.