Recycling Concepts for Photovoltaic Modules

In terms of sustainability, conservation of primary resources and landfill capacities a suitable recycling for these modules has to be developed. On the one Hand an appropriate recycling is necessary to recycle valuable metals and glass, which are used inphotovoltaic cells and on the other hand the energy demand for recycling processes is much lower than for primary winning-technologies. In the field of thin film cells, especially the chalcopyrite cells exists no adequate respectively marketable recycling procedure until now.