Of course the fossil fuel industry is completely silent on their established practice of recycling 0% of their emissions resulting from burning their fuels (and

Of course the fossil fuel industry is completely silent on their established practice of recycling 0% of their emissions resulting from burning their fuels (and never mind the process of creating, exploiting, transporting those). It's an extremely dirty business in comparison. Pump up a few million tonnes of oil, ship it half way across the globe, refine it using insane amounts of energy, burn and dump the toxic waste that remains and truck the refined goods to its final destination. If you spell it out like that it drives the notion home just how dirty all of that business is. Solar panels are mostly glass with some small amounts of metals. We're talking kilo grams vs. grams here. Most of that sits completely inert on your roof for decades with zero issues. It doesn't run of with rain water. You can collect that water and drink it or water your plants. It's perfectly safe. Some of the trace amounts of the non glass stuff is potentially toxic. That's what we're talking about. A lump of coal is way more toxic. Where do you think coal plants dump their ashes? Right: landfills! What do you think oil refineries do with the crap that remains after the refinement process. Or the raw materials like cobalt that they consume in the process. It's fine. Nobody gives a shit. In the grand scheme of what else they do it's not even worth talking about. The outrage regarding this is highly selective. Solar panels: OMG!!, coal: yawn who cares. The issue of what to do with solar panels is an extremely minor issue in comparison. And of course it is potentially addressed 100% by investing in recycling processes. Any suggestion that landfills are the only solution here is basically horse shit. The cost benefit analysis of recycling vs. using landfills is a bit of a thing in terms of cost / benefit of course. But arguably, the recovered materials are valuable commodities. Like copper for example. So there's that. But compared to what we dump in landfills already, it's basically a negligible issue. Articles like this are of course not independent journalists raising innocent (or even remotely original) questions but billions of dollars of lobby money financed by the fossil fuel industry hard at work rehashing myths, half truths, and other horse shit. All of this has just 1 goal: delaying the inevitable for financial gains (at the cost of our planet). The goal here is manipulating public policy and public sentiments in order to delay the moment when they have to pull the plug on their sunk investments related to burning coal, refining oil, selling petrol, etc. Worth calling out just how manipulative the fossil fuel sector is. The tobacco lobby are absolute saints in comparison.