The Carbon Footprint of a solar panel
Page 4: How your Genersys system keeps on saving CO2 beyond it's lifetime...
by Genersys Plc
Last updated: Monday, 02 April 2007
For example:
For every six tons of glass recycled one tonne of carbon dioxide can be saved.
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Recyclable materials...
At the end of the 35 year life expectancy of a Genersys solar panel system, virtually all of the materials can be recycled easily.
In particular, aluminium (a key material in our solar panels) is easy and cheap to recycle and there are many aluminium recycling plants; in the USA for example, aluminium cans are the product that is most recycled.
Similarly, copper and glass recycling is widely undertaken. Copper's recycling value is so great that premium-grade scrap normally has about 85% of the value of the primary metal from newly mined ore.
The choice to use recyclable materials in our solar panels is not based on coincidence, and in some instances it actually places a premium on our solar panels. But for the continued carbon savings they offer beyond the lifetime of your solar panel and the performance qualities they can sustain over such a long lifetime we hope you will agree, that not all solar panels are made equal.
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