{"id":65259,"date":"2022-09-07T06:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=65259"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:53:03","slug":"panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Solar Panel Recycling In Gannawarra Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panel recycling - Gannawarra\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In another step towards its national rollout, Solar Recovery Corporation has partnered with Victoria&#8217;s Gannawarra Shire Council to provide free local solar panel recycling services.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gannawarra Shire, in the Loddon Murray region of Victoria, is situated around 3 hours\u2019 drive from Melbourne. It&#8217;s home to around 10,683 people; close to half of whom live in Kerang. It&#8217;s also home to a lot of solar panels considering its population.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe installation of photovoltaic systems, such as solar panels, inverters and batteries, is occurring in record numbers nationally, including here in the Gannawarra,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au\/News-Media\/Recycle-your-solar-panels-at-Councils-transfer-stations\">said<\/a> Council CEO Tom O\u2019Reilly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When we checked in back in July\/August 2018, there were around 719 small scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/location\/kerang-3579-vic\/\"> solar power systems within Kerang\u2019s postcode<\/a>; representing 3.83MW of capacity. That has grown to approximately 1,008 small-scale systems with a collective capacity of 6,803 kW as at the end of July this year.<\/p>\n<p>Across Gannawarra Shire, there are around 2,000 PV systems installed; the vast majority of which are less than 10kW.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith solar panels having an average lifespan of 21 years, it is important that systems are in place now to accept the recycling of these items, which are classified as e-waste and cannot be disposed of via landfill,&#8221; stated Mr. O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">Good quality solar panels<\/a> should have a much longer life, but much shorter in the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/fixing-crap-solar-mb2132\/\">crap solar<\/a> &#8211; and unfortunately there has been plenty of that in Australia. So, there&#8217;s already a need for recycling options; particularly given Victoria&#8217;s e-waste landfill ban.<\/p>\n<p>While some Councils charge for panel disposal services &#8211; particularly if they are to end up in landfill &#8211; unwanted modules will be accepted at Gannawarra Shire Council\u2019s transfer stations situated at Cohuna, Kerang, Lalbert and Quambatook at no cost.\u00a0The panels will then be shipped to a Solar Recovery Corporation facility for processing.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a099+% Materials Recovery Claimed<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srcorp.com.au\/\"> Solar Recovery Corporation<\/a> is among several players to have kicked of module recycling\/ materials recovery operations in Australia, and boasts a 99+% material recovery rate.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting aspects of its recovery process is shredding, crushing, hydrometallurgy, chemicals, thermal processing or pyrolysis apparently aren&#8217;t used for materials separation. Mechatronic equipment separates the aluminium frame, junction box and cables from the panel, and further robotics complete the disassembly and sorting.<\/p>\n<p>The company has partnered with\u00a0 La Mia Energia (LME), which has been recovering end-of-life solar panels in Europe for 12 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSolar Recovery Corporation will take all solar panels earmarked for recycling, separate all materials and pack them for re-use in different industry sectors,\u201d Mr O\u2019Reilly said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By &#8220;all&#8221;, it&#8217;s not clear if that includes panels dropped off by installers. A similar recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-bendigo-mb2587\/\">arrangement with City of Greater Bendigo<\/a> doesn&#8217;t allow for installer drop-off, and also doesn&#8217;t include broken or smashed modules.<\/p>\n<p>While Gannawarra may be small-potatoes for Solar Recovery Corporation currently, perhaps it has its eye on the future in establishing a foothold there. The Shire is also home to the 60MW Gannawarra Solar Farm, which commenced operations in 2017. There are a bunch of other big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au\/Business-and-Events\/Business-Development\/Large-Scale-Solar-Development\">PV projects still on the board<\/a> for the LGA, all of which will need a panel disposal service at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another step towards its national rollout, Solar Recovery Corporation has partnered with Victoria&#8217;s Gannawarra Shire Council to provide free local solar panel recycling services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":65260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free Solar Panel Recycling In Gannawarra Shire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solar Recovery Corporation has partnered with Victoria&#039;s Gannawarra Shire Council to provide free local solar panel recycling services.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free Solar Panel Recycling In Gannawarra Shire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solar Recovery Corporation has partnered with Victoria&#039;s Gannawarra Shire Council to provide free local solar panel recycling services.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-06T19:55:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-06T04:53:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Free Solar Panel Recycling In Gannawarra Shire\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-06T19:55:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-06T04:53:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/\"},\"wordCount\":534,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/panel-recycling-gannawarra-mb2623\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/solar-recycling-gannawarra.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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