Green Earth Recycle can be deemed the first closed-loop solar module recycler and was approached by the McCarthy Building Companies and EDF Renewables to replace and recycle end-of-life solar panels from the Arrow Canyon Solar Project in Apex, Nevada.
Southern Nevada-based new minority-owned DBE-attested recycling firm, Green Earth Recycle, is pushing the country toward renewable or solar energy while promoting its recycling services.
The USA has seen a rise in the demand for solar installations in the past few years, which has led enthusiasts to chart out profound protocols to safeguard against industrial waste outflow and promote the recycling of materials.
The president of Green Earth Recycle, Tim Brown, notified: “We are very excited about this award and the opportunity to divert these solar modules from the overall waste stream and our local landfills. Ahead of legislation requiring recycling of solar modules, it is very positive that companies like McCarthy Building Companies and EDF Renewables are committed to the environment and not allowing this waste just to be shipped to the landfill in dumpsters.”
Usually, solar panels in the US have a lot of risk of getting mishandled during loading and unloading, causing great delays to most of the projects. Green Earth Recycle has come up with a unique formula to refurbish, replace and recycle these existing modules to give the USA’s solar industry a certain amount of boost indigenously.
Green Earth Recycle’s initiative will save electrical waste from the panels, recycling them to extract materials like glass, silicon and aluminium so they can be reused as raw ingredients. Solar panels usually have a great content of aluminium which is infinitely recyclable to get fresh raw material.
The project director for McCarthy Building Companies Renewable Energy and Storage Group, Chris Fletcher, went on to illustrate: “As we work to support the goals of businesses, communities, and utilities to establish a sustainable clean energy infrastructure, McCarthy is continually looking for innovative ways to further this objective."
“Through partnerships like this, with Green Earth Recycle and EDF Renewables, we are able to push forward even further with environmentally conscious solutions that reduce waste while maintaining the high-performance goals of the solar facilities we are building around the nation,” Fletcher added.
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