Perhaps It Should be Illegal to Take Solar Panels to the City Dump

   It's called infrastructure, and the solar and wind industries need more of it -- infrastructure to handle their waste, that is. 

  Ninety percent of used solar panels get tossed away. If they keep filling up the landfills at the rate that is predicted, by 2030 they will cover an area the size of 3,000 football fields. 

  And, used wind turbines? By 2050, they are expected to amount to 47 million ton of waste annually.

  There are companies popping up to recycle the used panels and turbine blades. Perhaps we need more. Perhaps the renewable energy companies need to be put in touch with them. Perhaps the national trade associations for solar and wind need to step up and help the solar and wind providers connect with recyclers.

  Perhaps, even, a law is necessary, forbidding the solar and wind companies from carrying the waste off to the city dump.

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