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Great topic and happy to see you address this. I have long advocated for regulations that require manufacturers of products (all products, not just solar panels) be required to take those products back at end of life and recycle/dispose of them properly. The cost of doing this should be baked into the initial sales price so that there is no need for recycling to be “economically feasible” on its own. If a given product can’t be recycled effectively, then it will likely be so costly to product and sell it that it will never hit the market. This would be a natural way to use the power of a free market to weed out products that are dangerous to the environment right at the start, not after many landfills are full of hazardous materials.
This is an interesting idea and raises several other questions. Can companies be responsible for/trusted to earmarking that additional revenue for future expenses? What happens when the company goes out of business?
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Great topic and happy to see you address this. I have long advocated for regulations that require manufacturers of products (all products, not just solar panels) be required to take those products back at end of life and recycle/dispose of them properly. The cost of doing this should be baked into the initial sales price so that there is no need for recycling to be “economically feasible” on its own. If a given product can’t be recycled effectively, then it will likely be so costly to product and sell it that it will never hit the market. This would be a natural way to use the power of a free market to weed out products that are dangerous to the environment right at the start, not after many landfills are full of hazardous materials.
This is an interesting idea and raises several other questions. Can companies be responsible for/trusted to earmarking that additional revenue for future expenses? What happens when the company goes out of business?
@ It would require periodic payments to a third party managed escrow account in proportion to product sales.