With storm season underway, it’s important to be prepared. Recycling is the responsible choice and increasingly the easier, more affordable choice. We’re here to help you recycle them safely, compliantly, and ensure you have an easy-to-access solution ready to go.
CONTACT A Sales RepStorm season is here and poses a threat to solar panels.
Hailstorms and tornado events are becoming more frequent, and solar asset owners and operators need a reliable and effective storm response partner. SOLARCYCLE’s robust onsite services, unmatched scale, and project experience make us uniquely qualified to support energy providers during storm season and beyond, helping your projects minimize downtime, lost energy and revenue.
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We roll trucks and provide “boots-on-the-ground” on-site services, helping solar operators quickly clear debris and damaged panels to resume operations, meet safety standards, and avoid further system degradation.
We ensure that damaged panels are recycled efficiently, not landfilled, helping you control costs and support sustainability commitments.
Our experienced team is trusted by top solar companies. We provide proactive insurance advice and certified recycling reports to streamline insurance claims, regulatory filings, and environmental reporting.
Our integrated services enable fast recovery so you can safely access, repair, and restart affected systems with minimal operational disruption.
We prioritize a distinctive zero-waste approach that sets us apart in the solar recycling industry, ensuring the recovery of up to 95% of a solar panel’s total material value. Every component of the panel—including the aluminum frame, tempered glass, polymers, silicon cells, and embedded precious metals—is carefully extracted through our advanced processing methods. These recovered materials are then sold to vetted offtakers who specialize in reintegrating them into the solar manufacturing supply chain, supporting a closed-loop, sustainable production model.
Our high-efficiency recycling and value recovery process is driven by a dedicated in-house research team and supported by a state-of-the-art laboratory at our Mesa, Arizona headquarters. This tailor-made facility enables ongoing innovation, rigorous material testing, and continuous improvement of our methods, ensuring that we stay at the forefront of solar technology sustainability.
There are a lot of factors to consider when recycling solar panels, and one of the most important is ensuring you are compliant with federal, state and local regulations. SOLARCYCLE will work with you to help you understand the EPA guidelines around solar panel recycling and provide you the tools to always be prepared. Our dedicated team of policy experts have pulled together a compliance packet and PV recycling checklist to help you fully understand your role as a waste generator and ensure your panels are recycled properly.
When it comes to PV panel recycling, it’s important to understand hazardous waste generation. When crushed, the encapsulant layer in both cadmium-telluride and silicon panels gets damaged, exposing cadmium or lead to the environment. If not managed correctly, these minerals pose real environmental and health risks. SOLARCYCLE is 3rd-party tested and has passed the TCLP (toxicity characteristic leaching procedure) test, which is required under EPA guidelines.
Our Field Operations Team offers experienced labor and supervision to prepare and package your panels. We provide personalized adherence to your project’s requirements and our packaging instructions. We can remove and recycle complete system components including but not limited to, batteries, racking, switchgear and inverters.
We also know that custom-sized materials and quantities required to package your panels are based on varying panel characteristics, and we are ready to provide just what you need. A site-specific load plan will have clear, site-specific instructions on packaging and loading. We have the necessary equipment and qualified operators to safely load all your project panels for recycling onto our provided trucks.
At SOLARCYCLE, we provide more than just responsible solar panel recycling—we equip you with detailed, data-driven environmental reporting to help you understand and showcase your sustainability impact. After your panels are recycled, we deliver both annual and project-specific reports that include key metrics such as the amount of landfill waste diverted, total kilograms of CO₂-equivalent emissions avoided, and the overall volume of waste you've kept out of the environment. These reports also offer a material-specific breakdown, detailing exactly how much aluminum, glass, silicon, copper, and other recoverable components were diverted and repurposed.
To further support your environmental goals, we provide a Certificate of Recycling that summarizes your recycling activity with SOLARCYCLE. This certificate serves as a credible, shareable record of your commitment to sustainability and circular resource use—ideal for ESG reporting, stakeholder communications, or internal tracking. With SOLARCYCLE, you’re not only reducing environmental impact but gaining actionable insights and documentation that help you lead with transparency and purpose.
Reverse logistics is essential in solar panel recycling, ensuring the efficient collection, transportation, and processing of end-of-life panels. This process begins with the customer's team safely dismantling and prepare panels for transport, often palletizing them to prevent damage during transit. We provide detailed packaging instructions on how best to palletize your panels. We then deploy specialized trucks to transport the panels to recycling facilities. These vehicles are equipped to handle the fragile nature of solar panels, ensuring their integrity is maintained throughout the journey.
Upon arrival at our recycling facility, the panels undergo a meticulous process of sorting and dismantling. Materials like aluminum frames, glass, and silicon are separated and processed for reuse, contributing to a circular economy in the renewable energy sector. Efficient logistics are crucial at every stage—from initial collection to final processing—to maximize material recovery and minimize costs. This comprehensive approach not only supports sustainability efforts but also aligns with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
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Our Field Operations Team can provide experienced labor and supervision to prepare, and package your panels.
We provide personalized adherence to your project’s requirements and SCI’s packaging instructions
We can remove and recycle complete system components including but not limited to, batteries, racking, switchgear and inverters
Custom sized material and quantities required to package your panels based on panel characteristics.
A site-specific load plan will be provided for clear, site specific instructions on packaging and loading.
SCI can provide the necessary equipment and qualified operators to safely load all your project panels for recycling onto SCI provided trucks
Custom sized material and quantities required to package your panels based on panel characteristics.
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Our Field Operations team can provide experienced labor and supervision to prepare, and package your panels.
We provide personalized adherence to your project’s requirements and SCI’s packaging instructions
We can remove and recycle complete system components including but not limited to batteries, racking, switchgear and inverters
Custom sized material and quantities required to package your panels based on panel characteristics.
A site-specific load plan will be provided for clear, site specific instructions on packaging and loading.
SCI can provide the necessary equipment and qualified operators to safely load all your project panels for recycling onto SCI provided trucks
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With our comprehensive recycling and field services, we can ensure your decommissioned solar panels are taken care of. By partnering with SOLARCYCLE, our customers secure cost-effective onsite services into their response plans, minimize system downtime, and ensure broken equipment is quickly recycled.
