A solar module is roughly 90% recoverable by mass — aluminium frame, glass, silicon, copper and small but valuable quantities of silver. Yet most decommissioned panels still head for landfill, a path several states are moving to close through e-waste bans and product-stewardship schemes.
Repower before you recycle
Often the greenest and most economic move is not recycling at all but repowering: swapping tired modules and inverters on a structurally sound array for modern, higher-output equipment, lifting generation on the same footprint and connection. The mounting, cabling and grid approval — the expensive parts — are reused.
Recovery done properly
- Frames and junction boxes separated and recycled as metals.
- Glass recovered for re-manufacture.
- Silicon and silver reclaimed through specialist processors.
We build end-of-life logistics into projects from day one, so the asset you commission has a planned, accountable second life — not an unfunded liability waiting at the end of the warranty.
