{"id":95662,"date":"2025-10-31T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=95662"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:04:43","slug":"solar-recycling-sydney-mb3303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-recycling-sydney-mb3303\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panel Recycling Facility Fires Up In Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PV Industries’ new solar panel recycling facility at Bankstown Airport officially opened this week, supported by funding from the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (EPA).<\/p>\n

How Many Solar Panels Can The Facility Recycle?<\/h2>\n

The EPA says the new Bankstown facility is expected to process up to 6,000 tonnes of solar panels per year; diverting approximately 200,000 panels from landfill annually. Processing of each solar panel is pretty quick \u2014 under 90 seconds.<\/p>\n

The numbers are a little odd. 6,000 tonnes\/200,000 panels annually works out to each panel weighing around 30 kilograms, but most solar panels used for rooftop installations these days weigh in at approximately 21 kilograms, and older lower-wattage panels even less. Larger, heavier modules may be used in commercial, industrial and utility scale PV facilities, but most of the panels processed will likely come from residential sources in the facility’s early years of operations.<\/p>\n

And to process 200,000 panels annually at ~90 seconds each would take around 208 days of a single processing line running 24\/7; however there may be more than one line at the Bankstown facility. Added: 31 October<\/strong> – in the comments below, Erik has pointed out given there are multiple stages in the process; panels may move through different stages at once, significantly reducing overall processing line runtime.<\/p>\n

How Are The Solar Panels Recycled?<\/h2>\n

After panels are transported to the facility:<\/p>\n