There is some good news in this article too: > In the UK and Europe, solar panels are covered by the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive,

There is some good news in this article too: > In the UK and Europe, solar panels are covered by the Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive, or WEEE. The rules oblige supplying companies to collect and recycle discarded panels, or to shoulder the cost for another entity to do so. It means that, hopefully, we won’t see tons more panels being dumped to landfills, but also means it’s often going to be more economical to send working panels to recycling rather than repurposing them. So at least the panels aren’t just ending up in landfills but are actively recycled. I don’t understand this sentence though: it’s often going to be more economical to send working panels to recycling rather than repurposing them If a reseller or manufacturer has to pay for the recycling of a panel I would assume it’s much cheaper to repurpose them instead of recycle them. What am I missing here?