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> The robots in Veolia’s new plant dissemble the panels to recuperate glass, silicon, plastics, copper and silver, which are crushed into granulates that can us
by rb808 8y ago
> The robots in Veolia’s new plant dissemble the panels to recuperate glass, silicon, plastics, copper and silver, which are crushed into granulates that can used to make new panels.
- rvense 8y agoThat's recycling, not reuse. A lot of energy and, I'd assume, water and chemicals go into turning these raw materials into panels again.
- Symbiote 8y agoBut those raw materials are much less raw than sand and metal ores.
- asfdsfggtfd 8y agoNot really. For example it takes similar amounts of energy to turn glass into glass of another shape than sand into glass.
- Chris_Jay 8y agoThen why is it profitable to recycle glass?