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Dr Thong Ya Xuan with a model of a solar panel recycling plant. She says the Singapore Polytechnic team's method can recover almost all of a solar panel's materials.
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Luke Anthony Tan
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The use of solar photovoltaic panels in response to climate change is growing exponentially, with some 400 million PV panels already installed worldwide.
But they do not last forever and ultimately end up at landfills, where toxic materials from them leach into the ground water, posing a danger to the environment.
