
The falling cost of solar power has led to mounting more and more solar panels on rooftops and backyard solar farms around the world. But the main problem is what happens to all of those solar panels in a couple of decades when they reach the end of their useful life? And what about electronic devices with even shorter life spans?
According to SolarDaily news, those questions are at the heart of new research released by a team at Georgia Institute of Technology, where researchers looked into the impact of government policies put in place to reduce the amount of electronics waste filling up landfills.
The study focused on government policies used to encourage electronics makers to put more thought into what happens at the end of the product life cycle. Those programs, which are called extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws and are already in use in some states, have two common objectives: to have producers design their products to be easier to recycle or to boost their durability for increased device life span. “What we have found is that sometimes when you design for recyclability, you give up on durability, and when durability is the goal, recyclability is sacrificed,” said Beril Toktay, a professor at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. ——————–***——————–
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Date: Apr 10, 2019 @ 15:25
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