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Recycling Clean Energy Technologies
This is a blog series examining current challenges and opportunities for recycling of clean energy technologies.
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![An example of microgeneration via a micro-grid in Cape Verde, using small wind turbines, solar PV and energy storage to power a community.](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/122222-Charlie-battery-1a-1000x600.jpg)
![A rare earth mine in Xinjiang, China.](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/121222-Charlie-wind-blog-3c-1000x600.jpg)
![Wind turbine blades being transported by train through Denver.](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/121222-Charlie-wind-blog-2a-1000x600.jpg)
![Workers watch installation of wind turbine blades.](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/121222-Charlie-wind-blog-1-1000x600.jpg)
![A worker from PHILERGY, a German-Filipino supplier and installer of solar energy, carries a solar panel during a home installation.](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Solar-panel-3-photo-1000x600.jpg)
![solar panels being manufactured](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/how-are-solar-panels-made-1000x600.jpg)
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![battery pack in an electric vehicle](https://blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ev-battery-pack-1000x600.jpeg)
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This is a blog series examining current challenges and opportunities for recycling of clean energy technologies.