Scientists in India have proposed to use solar modules at the end of their lifecycle as a building material for low-cost small housing units. With solar module recycling currently not viable economically, the researchers said their approach makes conventional solar panels into BIPV products without any modifications.
That’s the sad thing. All the fancy ‘recycling’ we are being sold as argument to buy more stuff is just science fiction, and really stuff just ends up as building material, in the best of cases. Mostly our trash just pollutes poor countries somewhere where nobody is looking. Yay innovations.