In a study on waste management in the renewable energy sectors published on Friday 10 January, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) points out that the EU’s renewable electricity supply industries are not quite ready to go circular.
The report states that as the energy transition progresses, volumes of waste (steel, copper, aluminium, concrete, fibreglass and glass) from renewable technologies such as photovoltaic modules and wind turbine blades will be generated “in...