Advancing Photovoltaic Sustainability and Circularity in Europe

Advancing Photovoltaic Sustainability and Circularity in Europe

The 5 EU-funded projects working on PV sustainability ICARUS RESiLEX PHOTORAMA CIRCUSOL and TRUST-PV are proud to share our common policy brief for a more sustainable and circular PV sector.
Together we made 5 key recommendations for policy:

1. Support the development of an international standard to foster the reuse of PV modules and grow a PV reuse market.
2. Create a dedicated category for PV waste in the WEEE directive 2012/19/EU to adapt the collection/recovery/recycling targets and incentivize the recovery of valuable and critical materials.
3. Support new and existing industries to ensure a fully European silicon value chain for the PV sector.
4. Support implementation of a full Circular Economy Framework for processing and refining PV manufacturing waste.
5. Promote regulatory requirements incentivizing circularity and recovery of critical raw materials.

Read the policy brief.