The world is slowly cleaning up electricity by rolling out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries.
While the transition to greener energy is critical, these technologies don’t last forever.
And the waste from dead renewables tech is piling up fast.
Dr Sophie Calabretto talks to Cosmos Magazine journalist Ellen Phiddian about how we recycle old renewables technology and how the transition to cleaner energy is in desperate need of a green waste solution.
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Originally published by Cosmos as Renewable energy and waste: what do we do with old renewables tech?
Sophie Calabretto
Dr Sophie Calabretto is a mathematician specialising in fluid mechanics. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and Honorary Associate Professor, at the ACE Research Group, University of Leicester.
Ellen Phiddian
Ellen Phiddian is a science journalist at Cosmos. She has a BSc (Honours) in chemistry and science communication, and an MSc in science communication, both from the Australian National University.
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