Is it actually a big issue? It's bad, but if you compare, say, pounds of aluminum in solar panels to pounds of soda cans that didn't get recycled and wads of bu

Is it actually a big issue? It's bad, but if you compare, say, pounds of aluminum in solar panels to pounds of soda cans that didn't get recycled and wads of burrito wrapper tinfoil, are the solar panels really a super big issue? Then again, without articles like this they might just do nothing, so maybe a certain amount of hype for smaller issues is a good thing.