Green Energy

Recycling Renewables

Recycling is directly connected to renewable energy as it helps in sustaining the natural resources of the earth. With the hype about recycling reaching every nook and corner of the world, there are many organizations, which have volunteered to take on recycling. Many products have been launched to facilitate proper recycling process. You don’t have to be a futurist to imagine a green energy landscape populated by rows of rotating wind turbines, fields of sparkling solar panels, and smooth-running, silent electric cars. Indeed, that utopian vision is almost within reach. But if the materials that enable those technologies aren’t reclaimed, the future’s clean energy will be anything but, with views marred by graveyards of old turbine blades, decrepit solar panels, and corroding batteries. Many initiatives are under way to prepare for the arrival of this new type of waste. But in most cases, the solutions are works in progress at best. The potential quantities of waste are enormous. By 2025, waste batteries removed from electric vehicles will total 95 gig watt hours’ worth, according to an estimate by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That pile will weigh roughly 600,000 metric tons.