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Dr Binesh Puthen Veettil explains how the breakthrough recycling technology was initially developed to laminate solar panels. However, the team later discovered that it could also reverse the process—delaminating panels to recover valuable materials. With millions of panels reaching end-of-life, millions of tonnes of critical minerals are headed to landfill. This cutting-edge microwave technology has the potential to cleanly separate layers and significantly boost the recovery of valuable minerals like #silver and #silicon that can be resold into the solar and high-tech manufacturing sectors.  

• The process reverses panel lamination to enable delamination. 

• Current recycling often stops at deglassing, leaving the rest of the critical minerals going to landfill. 

• Microwave separation can recover high-purity silicon, glass, and silver. 

• Innovation provides a profitable, scalable recycling solution for the solar industry.

Lithium Universe (LU7) Explainer: Solar Panel Recycling Technology - Where It Began