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A report has found measurable improvements in the performance of technologies used for recycling crystalline silicon and thin-film PV modules.

PV recycling capacity in Europe is lagging behind forecast waste volumes over the coming decades, according to a new study.

Comstock and its subsidiary Comstock Metals have received certification from California’s DTSC to recycle universal waste and process PV modules at their California facility. 

US-based PV recycling firm Solarcycle has begun operations at its Cedartown recycling facility in Georgia, US.

US metals firm Comstock has completed all the necessary permits to build a solar module recycling facility in Nevada.

US solar recycling firm OnePlanet has achieved the R2v3 certification from electronics sustainability non-profit SERI, which represents the “highest standards of traceability”.

Spanish waste management company Trabede and energy firm Greening Group will build a solar module recycling plant in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

Utility giant Engie North America has incorporated a precycling provision to incorporate solar panel and project component recycling into power purchase agreements (PPA) at four solar PV plants across the Midwest, US.

Solarcycle has signed a recycling agreement with RWE Clean Energy to use its recycling system for 'many' of the latter’s products.

In the final days of 2024, PV Tech is looking back at the stories that dominated the headlines in each quarter of the year.