> ”You have these big pension funds looking at this from a spreadsheet,” looking for ways to better maximise their investment. The end result is that all of the

> ”You have these big pension funds looking at this from a spreadsheet,” looking for ways to better maximise their investment. The end result is that all of these otherwise fine panels are junked. “When you think about the embedded carbon of bringing [the panels] over [from China]” said Burnell “and then they go into the waste stream [...] seems mad.” The throwing away of functional solar panels feels criminal to me, even though I can see the “business case” for it.