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Recycling needs material quotas

The EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment remains the primary legislation setting the requirements for the recycling of photovoltaic panels in Europe. pv magazine examines whether the policy is in need of a drastic update, and what it can be done to improve the sustainability of the PV sector through recycling.

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Ilias Tsagas

02 Nov 2020

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The latest revision of the EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) was published in July 2012, and in some member states it took up to five years to transpose it into national legislation. The directive concerns all kinds of electronic equipment. So from a PV perspective, the delay did not affect the …

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