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“Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards.” Aldous Huxley

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight.

Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go?

The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill.

Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground.

Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking.
When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade.

This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

[ComputerWeekly @ComputerWeekly]

Europe and US negotiate deal to share citizens’ biometric data, UK also approached https://t.co/s2Pb7lVkb9

[NCSC UK @NCSC]

Our CEO was on BBC Breakfast this morning to explain why passkeys are an easier, faster and more secure way to login.

Interested in finding out more? Head to our website: https://t.co/VTVUJNIdqX

#WorldPasskeyDay

[Londonist @Londonist]

If you've ever wondered about the City of London's odd street names, we've made a map showing how everything from Cheapside to Lothbury came to be. More info here -> https://t.co/E6U0zcuzNn

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

Today’s @thetimes
“Riel Karmy-Jones KC, the chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, said she did “not understand why this core data, which shows that the crown court case backlog in large parts of the country is coming down, was not shared with us, or the parliamentary select committee scrutinising the Courts and Tribunals Bill last week”.

She added: “The debate about jury trials is of such generational importance, not only to the criminal justice system, but society as a whole. Yet for no explicable reason, this data, which may undermine government’s own projections, and was available on the date it was due for publication, appears to have been sat on for many weeks if not many months.”

Karmy-Jones said that “at this crucial stage in negotiations relating to the bill, it is essential that everyone has absolute trust that they are being dealt a fair hand”, adding: “We rely on our government and our MPs to apply a transparent democratic process.”

The association criticised ministers in their promotion of the bill for allegedly relying on an impact assessment that provided “no proper evidential foundation” and which included “assumptions — rather than data”.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Everyone has their own way of solving problems..🦙😅

[pepper @pepperbackfish]

@EddieRidley10 You’re very welcome. Hope they sort it for you quickly.

[pepper @pepperbackfish]

@EddieRidley10 @ICOnews Perhaps ICOnews could update their advice to include how to find the email address of a company from the privacy notice section? They have to include the Data Protection Officer email on there so you can email your complaint to them
https://t.co/riIFTaPBJw

Hopefully that helps👇

[National Crime Agency (NCA) @NCA_UK]

A wanted people smuggler has been tracked down and arrested in Coventry by the National Crime Agency.

Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/zXRx8NpSnf

[EU Consumer Affairs @EU_Consumer]

We are calling on SHEIN to respect EU consumer laws:

⚠️ Fake discounts
⚠️ Pressure tactics
⚠️ Misleading sustainability claims
⚠️ Deceptive product labels
⚠️ Hidden contact info
⚠️Deceptive product labels
⚠️Misleading reviews

🕐 SHEIN has 1 month to reply

#consumerProtection

[The CBA @TheCriminalBar]

Court system in crisis as ‘jaw-dropping’ delays see first trials listed for 2029

“It cannot be right for victims of crime, eyewitnesses and those accused of crimes to have to wait until 2029 for their trial to take place”
Mary Prior KC, Chair of the CBA. https://t.co/whrdwapPfA

[Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva]

Legal Aid Agency data breach https://t.co/RXBs5jS2Wk

Private data including criminal records stolen in Legal Aid hack https://t.co/HVhWHQtrBk

Lots of high profile #databreaches in the UK news recently but this one looks particularly horrendous.

#cybersecurity #dataprotection

[Justice Committee @CommonsJustice]

Following the concerning contents aired in the @Channel4 Dispatches programme about @SercoGroup electronic monitoring, we have written to Lord Timpson (@JamesTCobbler) requesting further information and reassurance on the issues raised.

Read the letter in full ⬇️

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Striking acknowledgement from @ONS of the increasing concern about its output - suggests they haven't actually been focusing enough on this stuff...

[Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner]

The government drew up emergency legislation to a supposed 'two-tier justice' threat from the Sentencing Council.

But nothing urgent happens when people with dementia are actually being convicted - and left devastated - over unpaid car insurance

Shocking
#singlejusticeprocedure

[Johnny @j00ny369T]

How Switzerland cleaned their rivers.

[Wendy Blythe @greenarteries]

‘most common site for fly-tipping? Pavements & roads…Many of those involved in illegal waste dumping have internat connections & use waste industry “to launder money & fuel other illegal activities” Phil Davies, head of joint unit waste crime Env Agency’ https://t.co/rG4223Yq95

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of students are suspected of scamming taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds for courses they don’t intend to take

[MoneySavingExpert @MoneySavingExp]

Warning. Microsoft is automatically adding AI software to your 365 subscription AND is hiking the price of your package by up to £30 a year to do so.

But we've a trick to avoid it... 👉 https://t.co/BEnogZ1Sly