'Solar trash tsunami': How solar power is driving a looming environmental crisis Remember when flatscreens yielded mountains of trashed CRT

'Solar trash tsunami': How solar power is driving a looming environmental crisis

Remember when flatscreens yielded mountains of trashed CRT monitors? This could be worse.

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The meteoric rise of solar power is set to spark a “tsunami” of unrecyclable trash as consumers trade out their obsolete solar panels for better ones, according to new research out of the University of Calgary.

“Put simply, we can expect a lot more solar panel waste within the next decade than we are prepared for,” wrote a team led by Calgary-based supply chain researcher Serasu Duran in a pre-publication paper.