Old solar panels contain valuable silver, copper, silicon, aluminum, and glass. A new Texas solar recycling plant aims to recover nearly all of it without sending partially processed materials overseas.
We Recycle Solar (WRS) says it will open what it describes as the first US end-to-end critical-materials recovery plant dedicated to retired solar panels in Q3 2027.
The 10-acre facility outside Dallas will process one panel per minute and recover up to 96% of its materials, according to the Yuma, Arizona-based company. Those materials will then be cleaned and prepared for sale back into US supply chains…