{"id":270563,"date":"2026-01-06T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:23:27","slug":"south-koreas-hanwha-begins-solar-panel-recycling-at-us-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270563\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Hanwha begins solar panel recycling at US unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Hanwha Qcells expects more requirements for producers to recover discarded panels<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260105N South Korea Solar Recycling\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Qcells solar panel recycling facility responds to pressure from local governments for makers to handle recycling of the panels they produce. (Qcells)<\/p>\n<p>KANA MATSUKAWA<\/p>\n<p>January 6, 2026 03:18 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Hanwha Qcells, a solar panel manufacturer under South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, has begun operations at its first panel recycling facility in the U.S. as the company responds to increasingly common regulations for producers to handle recycling of discarded panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies Hanwha Qcells expects more requirements for producers to recover discarded panels The Qcells solar panel recycling facility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[113024,18,440,59331,19,17,138000,37532,2375,133,13910,6570,24690,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-270563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-begins","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-hanwha","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-koreas","15":"tag-panel","16":"tag-recycling","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-solar","19":"tag-south","20":"tag-unit","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115849081902277939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}