Featured in The journey to 100 GW – 05-2023

A ROSI outlook

ROSI (Return of Silicon) Solar won the pv magazine Award for manufacturing last year for recovering high-value materials from PV module waste. As the company brings its first recycling plant online in France, Mark Hutchins caught up with Hsin-Hsin Fan, commercial engineer for ROSI, to get an update on its solar recycling operations.
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pv magazine: How is the current landscape for PV recycling?Hsin-Hsin Fan: When we talk about PV recycling, usually what is done today is mechanical shredding. This method is commonly used for other types of waste electronics so the machines are widely available and not too costly.For PV modules, however, it is not possible to recover …

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