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.
🚨JUST IN: Canada just criminalized the Bible. Bill C-9 has passed the Senate, removing key religious protections and opening the door for Scripture to be treated as “hate speech.”
Quoting the Bible on marriage, sin, or God’s design for sexuality can now lead to prosecution for “willful promotion of hatred.”
This is a direct attack on Christianity and religious freedom in Canada.
Brothers and sisters — the time to stand is now.
Pray for Canada. Speak the truth boldly. Defend the Gospel while we still can.
@HendrikLiebold@GerhardLenz Such an uneducated and anti-scientific statement does not deserve further comment as you obviously haven't even managed elementary school science to this point.
@HendrikLiebold@GerhardLenz Simply noting your use of the phrase "climate change denier community" suggests to us that you know little to nothing about our ongoing climate change.
I've been studying this for a number years and I have never met a climate change denier. Have you?
@FunkyTramp@GerhardLenz Recent studies have shown that the "claimed" Carbon isotope signature is not as clear as once thought. Neglected from this thinking is the understanding of the "older" CO2 released by rivers.
Refer to a 2025 study by Deal et al.
@TMT23_@GerhardLenz Marty: Note the first word in IPCC... "Intergovernmental", not interscientific or even international but "Intergovernmental", i.e., among governments.
More to the point, among governments which are part of the UN and WEF!
How could the intent and fraud be any more obvious?
@JayGenXer As one senior or whatever comes after that, this one never has voted Liberal and who has no use for anyone in the Liberal Party, at least since ol' man Trudeau.
UNBELIEVABLE!!! Govt documents released:
Mark Carney's government hasn’t turned a shovel or laid an inch of track for the high-speed rail project, yet they are paying out millions in executive bonuses!
100% of officials at Alto got big bonuses. For what? Meetings and photo-ops?
Canada's governor general quietly locks the country into the WHO's expanded pandemic powers
As the U.S. rejects the revamped, legally binding framework, Canada is full steam ahead with debate or public consultation.
Canada has moved forward without a whisper of debate on the World Health Organization’s latest bid for greater authority over global health emergencies, while the United States outright rejected it.
Earlier this month, Governor General Mary Simon authorized Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to accept the Amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), adopted in Geneva on June 1, 2024.
The decision was sealed through a routine Order in Council. That means that there was no parliamentary vote, no public consultation, and no meaningful provincial input.
Canadians were simply informed after the fact.
This stands in stark contrast to the American position where, under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. rejected the amendments and withdrew funding from the WHO entirely earlier this year.
These amendments were rushed through the World Health Assembly in May 2024, in spite of the fact that they’re not minor, technical tweaks.
Instead, they serve to strengthen and entrench the WHO’s ability to declare emergencies, coordinate international responses, and pressure sovereign nations toward compliance with whatever they deem necessary.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who praised China’s early COVID-19 response in a now-removed report, insists that the updates are merely about “cooperation and collaboration.”
Yet several countries are hesitating, or walking away like the US has.
Canada, as usual, is all in.
With Bill Gates poised as one of the WHO’s largest donors following the US withdrawal, he has repeatedly called for military-style “virus war games” every five years to grade nations on their preparedness.
Canadian government IHR overview even openly list “emergency preparedness and response exercises” as a core way Ottawa meets its IHR obligations.
What began as optional simulations is being baked into the regular cycle of “global health security.”
This is classic incrementalism: quiet, heavily bureaucratic, and loaded with sweeping implications.
During COVID-19, WHO “recommendations” quickly became domestic mandates — lockdowns, mask rules, travel bans, and vaccine passports. Dissent was branded misinformation. Families were divided, livelihoods destroyed, and public trust shattered.
The amended regulations grease the wheels for faster emergency declarations and tighter coordination with global actors, include pharmaceutical interests and mandated intelligence sharing, leaving Ottawa with less room to push back.
The Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) annex could incentivize the hunt for deadly viruses, expand lab risks, and centralize global health power under the World Health Organization, warns Yale graduate Reggie Littlejohn, President of Anti-Globalist International.
Despite Canada being a parliamentary democracy, none of these commitments were brought to the House of Commons for debate or a vote. Yet, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada continue to champion “global health security,” all while leaving their own pandemic-era failures and outdated regulations unaddressed.
Who, exactly, is guarding Canadian sovereignty and informed consent when the next declared emergency arrives?
Tedros himself has made clear that questioning the official narrative will not be tolerated.
We have lived this story once already. Locking in the framework for round two without transparency or democratic oversight is not prudent governance. Instead, it’s the normalization of the very overreach that eroded Canadian’s civil liberties the first time.
It’s high time that the government commit to prioritizing local accountability over backroom commitments to unelected global bureaucracies funded by pharmaceutical interests.
“Six Democrat states siphoned $1.3 BILLION in federal healthcare funds in just a few months.”
Dr. Oz says they investigated it themselves.
$1.3 BILLION STOLEN from taxpayers.
If fraud this blatant can go unnoticed, corruption isn’t accidental — it’s incentivized.
International bureaucracies are retreating from their formerly 'iron-clad' fixation on immediate global climate collapse.
As their worst-case computer models evaporate under the weight of real-world data, the goalposts are shifting. Realising they can no longer defend the rigid targets used to drive public anxiety, institutions like the IPCC are quietly pivoting to 'overshoot' mode to manage the damage.
This retreat is happening because empirical data from NASA satellites is telling a vastly different story of planetary resilience. The Sahara Desert, of all places, has shrunk by roughly 8% since the 1980s. This isn't a computer model simulation, it's the visible reality captured by NASA’s AVHRR and MODIS satellite instruments.
Satellite data reveals that 25% to 50% of Earth’s vegetated lands have shown significant greening. This is an expansion of biomass equivalent to twice the continental United States. Carbon dioxide fertilisation is responsible for roughly 70% of this growth.
Higher atmospheric CO₂ is also allowing marginal plants to use water more efficiently. Leaf pores (stomata) don't need to stay open as long to take in carbon, drastically cutting water loss and boosting natural drought resistance. This biological efficiency is allowing vegetation to march back into the world’s most hostile environments.
Green cover has been actively reclaiming the arid fringes of the Sahel (the Sahara’s southern edge), the Middle East and Australian Outback. An 8% reduction in the Sahara's desert expanse means over 700,000 square kilometres of formerly barren sand wastes have transitioned to green cover.
With CO₂ now hovering around 430 ppm, nature is using this extra airborne fuel to thrive in regions once completely inhospitable.
Centralised policy platforms remain focused on worst-case scenarios and economic penalties. But the biosphere is quietly demonstrating a profound, measurable benefit from higher CO₂. Earth is becoming greener and more water-efficient - where it matters most.
No one expected this.
Both men said “I can’t breathe”, but only one man’s death was covered relentlessly by the media.
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the legacy mainstream media is incredibly, hatefully racist against Whites.
As an Ontarian watching this… I’m actually speechless 🤦🏻♂️
Doug Ford is now out here saying “we can’t keep delaying” US trade talks and “we need to get to the table” ASAP ahead of the CUSMA deadline.
This is the **SAME** Doug Ford who ordered **ALL** American booze pulled from LCBO shelves in 2025 — and still refuses to put it back until the US “concedes” in the trade war.
The same guy whose government blew **$75 MILLION** of Ontario taxpayer dollars on big anti-tariff ads in the US (that even Mark Carney reportedly begged him to pull).
But now — literally the day after Carney goes south and says a “strong Canada will help Make America Great Again” — Ford suddenly flips the script and wants urgency?
This is what “leadership” looks like in Ontario? Pure political theatre.
Ontario — be honest, are you buying this sudden change of heart? Drop your thoughts below 👇
#DougFord #Ontario #CUSMA #TradeWar #BoozeBan #cdnpoli #MarkCarney #Hypocrisy
Canada is now in a recession, courtesy of Carney & HIS Liberals.
With the actions of Trudeau and Carney, what else should we expect?
Are Canadians now ready to throw this trash out of Canada?
Carney BEGS Trump for HELP as Canada IMPLODES !!! https://t.co/slLGG7zQkR via @YouTube