Chinese Solar Panel Pollution

Pollution is a real problem in china.

Chinese solar panel pollution.

They also contain lead cadmium and other toxic even carcinogenic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. Environmental scientists and solar industry leaders are raising the red flag about used solar panels which contain toxic heavy metals and are considered hazardous waste. China s ageing solar panels are going to be a big environmental problem the issue of how to dispose of hazardous waste from ageing panels casts a shadow over the drive towards renewable energy. Despite greening industry pollution grows as energy production explodes.

Solar panels generate 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants. But the view from solar panel factories is sometimes a little different. So it should come as no surprise that the 13th five year plan includes drastic policy measures calling for a reduction of emissions from coal burning industries while showing support for wind solar and bio power. Symbolic of an era of new energy the solar industry presents a bright and clean image to the world.

On some hazy days particularly in winter china s skies are blanketed by white and gray clouds of air pollutants. Protests last month exposed pollution problems at a manufacturing site in zhejiang province which according to industry insiders are just the tip of the iceberg. Between 2008 and 2013 china s fledgling solar electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high tech market. In a study published last week in the journal nature the researchers.

China s pollution ridden air is blocking sun from solar panels solar panels 15 less productive due to pollution.