[AT7Saluki]

Like with so many other things, the authorities instituting these policies will be long gone before any consequences come around.

[FLNittany]

Put an Apple tag on a piece of cardboard or a glass or plastic bottle and toss it in your “recycling bin”.

Then watch it turn up in the local landfill.

There’s no money in recycling.

[butlerweave]

Maybe they can wash them like they make us wash Garbage so they can call it recycling ,LOL

[FreedomPoster]

Actually, the consequences are already coming around. The blackouts in recent years in California and Texas are arguably at least in part, if not largely, because of the rush to so-called “renewable energy” and a lack of attention/money paid to dispatchable generation capacity and grid reliability.

[Qwapisking]

the best way to solve the problem of massive amounts of toxic waste on planet earth is to use the same method of disposal used in the movie “soldier”...ship it all off to another planet and drop it off. the moon would be a perfect place to dump our garbage. it’s close, no one lives there, no atmosphere and elon musk and his spacex could build a fleet of garbage transports in a few short years with international help and support. we could clean up the entire planet in 20 years and may be even get the wef to move their headquarters to the moon. it could be called “the moondump project” with a catchy jingle or maybe a catch phrase like “TO THE MOONDUMP ALICE!”. what’s not to like?

[Lockbox]

From the Green Movement, you know save the planet, the recycle Nazis. A product they demanded, a product they want, a product that they mandate in some cases, yet, YET cannot be recycled! First it’s wind mill blades, then it’s EV batteries and not its solar cells! Exactly how are we better off with Green Products you can’t recycle?

apparently the only thing these people think about recycling is votes, they print them by the thousands and just keep running them through the machines…….

[FlingWingFlyer]

Throw them in with the piles of worn-out windmills. Those junkyards do a lot for the local scenery.

[hecticskeptic]

“While in use, solar panels safely generate electricity without creating any air emissions. ...”
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That very first sentence begs to be challenged and for one thing, it ignores the environmental impact related to the manufacturing of the panels... particularly the second stage of refining the silicon i.e. trichlorosilane gas, silicon dust, cadmium, nitrogen trifluoride, sulfur hexafluoride, copper indium selenide.... and that’s just a start.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/solar-panels-produce-tons-of-toxic-waste-literally/

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You cannot open a coal strip (surface) mine without posting huge bonds to reclaim the land after mining operations are completed.

Wind and solar need the same approach. You would have to post a bond up front to recycle the toxic material at the end of their lives.

[anton]

The biggest problem with solar panels (other that the obviously higher cost of their electricity) is that they are put on the roofs of buildings where they don’t belong by stupid people. The differential cost of a solar panel on a roof compared with a field of solar panels in the open countryside it probably an order of magnitude. And, its the same electricity being produced. They fail like they were built to last only a couple of years and changing out a $50 panel on your roof will cost you $500. And, a roof repair goes from being a couple hundred dollars to slide in a few shingles or caulk some flashing to a picnic for the solar company.

[Pennsyltucky Boy]

I am working on a small space heater that burns spent solar cells and castoff windmill blades. The only issue seems to be the toxic fumes created by the process of incinerating green technology. Perhaps this issue could be overcome with an afterburner fired by sperm whale oil.