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General comment Flat-glass recycling that aims to recover glass and Al frames, referred as “glass recycling”. glass is separated from the module and recycled by thermal decomposition, mechanical cutting or shredding. The downcycling approach recycles module glass and aluminiumframe, which has been demonstrated in Europe . This process firstlymanually removed the Al frame, junction box and copper cables. Then the module was shredded on the glass recycling line, followed by crushing and a series of manual and mechanical sorting and extractionprocesses to recycle most of the glass and Al . The ferrous metals were sent to specific recyclers; the leftovers, which includes the mixture of silicon, metal, plastic, and glasses that the shredder cannotfurther separate, were sent to landfill. This simple recycling methodavoids most masses to be landfilled with relatively low energy input and processing costs. |
