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RECYCLING SOLAR PANELS, A 'HUGE RESOURCE AT THE END OF LIFE, FOR ECONOMY "DOUBLE GREEN, DOUBLY GREEN

The PV industry has already 'thought to the solution and recycling. Not least because technologies for the recovery of materials forms no longer 'in use are already available and an early field experience have produced very promising results.

A man at 25 years is still in the bloom of youth '. A photovoltaic system, however, is launched towards the end of their life cycle. Begins to produce less energy than in the first years of operation, must be abandoned and, like other electrical and electronic products, as waste speciale. Un sistema che per anni ha prodotto energia pulita rischia così di trasformarsi in un altro degli innumerevoli dispositivi tecnologici di difficile smaltimento che intasano le discariche. Una fine ingloriosa, ma soprattutto uno spreco trattandosi di un prodotto che, anche a fine vita, può rivelarsi ancora utile. Un modulo fotovoltaico è costituito da vetro per circa il 70% del suo peso, utilizzato per le superfici espositive e di protezione, da metalli, come l’alluminio, utilizzato per le cornici, da silicio, il materiale foto attivo, e da altri semiconduttori, come argento e rame, impiegati per al realizzazione dei contatti elettrici. Materiali preziosi, il cui ciclo di vita non coincide con quello dei dispositivi fv and therefore could be recovered in view of their use for the construction of new modules. We talk about recycling, an issue that in recent years is beginning to attract the interest of an industry striving to environmental sustainability and that begins to address the problem of how to dispose of its own products at end of life. Just to find a solution to this problem, many manufacturers and importers of modules founded in July 2007, the PV Cycle Association ( www.pvcycle.org ). The organization, headquartered in Brussels and currently has 35 members and 8 associated companies representing more than 80% PV market of the old continent seeks to promote best practices for recycling and support the development of advanced collection and recycling of the modules. "The mission of PV Cycle - Clyncke says Jan, director of the association - is to close a virtuous life cycle of a PV module . These devices are designed to produce clean energy for at least 25-30 years, thus contributing to environmental protection and the fight against climate change. Now we want this contribution does not fail even when the form is no longer 'able to generate energy, thus, as stated in the slogan of our association, the PV industry "Double Green" doubly green ". Meanwhile in Germany, a country the world leader in the production and use of Solar, First Solar announced the construction of a plant, the first in Europe, for the disposal of the panels, able to recover 90 % of the materials.