Solar Panel Pollution 2016

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Solar panel pollution 2016.

In a november 2016 article osamu tomioka stated that japanese solar panel waste will likely grow from the current 10 000 tons a year to 800 000 tons a year and that just to recycle all of the waste produced through 2020 will take 19 years. How long will it take and at what cost to recycle 80 times that amount. Based on installed capacity and power related weight we can estimate that by 2016 photovoltaics had spread about 11 000 tons of lead and about 800 tons of cadmium. A hazard summary of cadmium compounds produced by the epa points out that exposure to cadmium can lead to serious lung irritation and long lasting impairment of pulmonary functions.

The growing concern over solar panel pollution lies mainly within harmful toxins like cadium that can potentially leach into the soil with broken panels that aren t properly discarded and nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride that are associated with the actual production of the panels. Wherein the conspicuous use of a green product like an electric vehicle or solar panels prompts neighbors to.