Bankrupt Solyndra Caught Destroying Brand New Parts

I work in the glass business, though we don't do the low iron glass used by companies like this and I don't know any specifics about Solyndra. That aside, it's entirely possible that custom glass would be useless to anyone else. Especially if it was tempered glass, which cannot be cut after tempering (it shatters when you attempt to cut it). The article also mentions that they tried, but were unable to find a buyer. It's possible that this glass was in a size only they could use and anyone else would have to redo their manufacturing process to use it.

That said, you can recycle broken glass and even get paid for it. I don't know if they're doing this or not, but it's probably more worthwhile than seeing if someone else needs exactly the same custom glass as you do.

Finally, unless that was a some kind of standard stock size (in which case you should be able to sell it directly to other parties), I really don't think the factory would want it back. We do mostly custom-sized lites of glass and when an order is cancelled or returned for whatever reason, it goes into the dumpster and gets recycled. There's almost nothing you can save most of the time and yes, I've searched through orders just to see if there was anything we could salvage. You're not likely to find anything you can save.