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When Light is Dark: Waste from Key Solar Cell Ingredient Damages Chinese Environment

By chemrat 256 days ago from http://blogcritics.org

Discussion with personal anecdotes and additional background material of the recent revelations in the Washington Post about serious pollution of rural China by plants that manufacture polysilicon, also known as polycrystalline silicon, for use in solar panels. Chinese factories are not investing in the waste treatment and recycling that are used by more developed nations in the manufacture of polysilicon. Comments from a recent visitor to China are added, as are references and links to how solar panels work and how they are made, and what a lifecycle analysis of them shows.

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Tags: solar solar panels toxic waste green environment china polysilicon manufacture


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