New panels are made from plastic in China. A female farmer was interviewed a few days back on Fox.
And? Most panels are and have been made in China. I’m no proponent of solar power, but use your brain on this. Plastic takes decades to decompose. Now possibly if a panel is damaged and the garbage left where it is, in decades there would be some yuck chemical leach into the ground from the plastic. This seems easily mitigated by clean up of broken equipment. It’s not like a liquid chemical is spilling out of broken panels and polluting the ground. That’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.
I mean, if you believe this female farmer I assume you’re farming all your own food so none of it touches plastic and all the water pipes in your home are copper. Though I can pretty much guarantee that if you’re not on well water that the water coming to your home from the water treatment plant is touching a lot of, probably Chinese made, plastic.