Featured in Automation in motion – 05-2010

Goodbye to heavy metals

EU environmental guidelines: New environmental constraints loom for the photovoltaics industry. Members of the European Parliament are now discussing recycling systems and directives to govern the use of carcinogenic substances like lead and cadmium in electrical and electronic equipment.

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pv magazine

17 Sep 2010

Although solar modules produce “green” electricity, they make use of dangerous substances. How “chemically green” does the PV industry have to be? And what happens to old equipment after it’s taken out of use? Discussion of these two questions is intensifying in Europe, because two environmental guidelines dating back to 2003 are being revised in …

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