Landfill waste and recycling: Use of a screening-level risk assessment tool for end-of-life cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels

Minería de rellenos sanitarios como alternativa de gestión para residuos sólidos

“…En Europa, el primer país en entrar en esta tendencia fue Alemania, con el fin de fomentar el reciclaje y la recuperación de los vertederos en el año de 1994; este país es una potencia en digestores que se sostienen gracias a que la energía que se produce por ellos se paga por KWH producido. Otras experiencias de Europa han estado en los Países Bajos (Jain et al, 2013;Cyrs, 2014).…”

Review on feasible recycling pathways and technologies of solar photovoltaic modules

“…According to Cyrs et al [8], CdTe-based PV panel EoL management is still important, though landfill disposal of CdTe-based PV panels does not pose a human health hazard at current production volumes. Raugei et al [9,10] analyzed the Cd emission in the EoL stage of PV system based on three recycling scenarios.…”

Comparative analysis of old, recycled and new PV modules

“…The recovery of pure silicon from waste PV modules contributed to the solution of several problems such as the supply of silicon, manufacturing costs, and end-of-life management of PV modules (Kang et al, 2012). Recycling of polycrystalline silicon, amorphous silicon and CdTe photovoltaic panels was studied and investigated with different techniques and processes to get the best recovery of these materials (Cyrs et al, 2014;Granata et al, 2014;Marwede et al, 2013). A study has been done on the degradation of different types of backsheet used in PV module which can be used in recycled PV module (Kim et al, 2014).…”