PC Cycle Belgium Collects 404 Tons of Solar Panels for Recycling in Q1 2024

PV Cycle Belgium is on an impressive pace one quarter into 2024, collecting 404 tons of solar panels to be recycled.

PV Cycle Belgium is responsible for collecting and recycling solar panels throughout Belgium. The 404 tons the company has collected in the first quarter of 2024, approximately 18,500 solar panels, puts it on track to outpace the total it collected through all of 2023. Last year, the company collected 658 tons.

“Currently, there are even more new solar panels installed than old panels removed and collected for recycling,” said Johan Goossens, the company’s country manager for Belgium. “But the quantities collected increase from year to year and we must prepare for large quantities that will be recycled in the future.”

To keep up with the massive increase in quantities, PV Cycle Belgium has partnered with BNA Trading & Recycling and Comet Treatments to handle the materials in the country's north and sound parts, respectively.

“We are convinced that the solar panels that are on roofs today will last a long time, but they will eventually reach the end of life,” Goossens added. “We will then be ready to collect and process them in order to reuse the precious materials that they contain.”

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