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Given the long life and low mass of solar panels it's not clear to me that recycling is a noticeable environmental win. I'm also surprised that they list the landfill cost as $1-$5 per panel. That's extremely expensive unless they're calculating the labor and gas cost of removing a single panel and driving it out to the dump one at a time.

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I calculate it at 52 cents per panel (40 lbs a panel)

Source for the cost:

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/74124.pdf one study found that disposal tipping fees at non-hazardous landfills ($26/U.S. ton) can cost less than $1 per module and less than $5 per module at hazardous waste landfills ($175/U.S. ton)

Wow. I did not expect a single panel to weigh 15+kg. TIL

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