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Explore innovative approaches to reduce landfill waste in the Northern Territory through workshops, research on end-of-life solar panel management, and IoT-integrated Smart Skips. Discover barriers, solutions, and policy changes for effective waste reduction initiatives.
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Reducing waste to landfill Deepika Mathur
Smart Skips Researchers Engineers VET trades
Remote What are the barriers to reducing waste to landfill? Urban
???? • What is the volume of solar panels currently deployed in the Northern Territory? • What is the likely solar panel waste trajectory in the next 20 years? • What is the spread of the solar panels geographically in the NT? • What are volumes of different types of panels (Silicon-based; Thin-filmed base or any others); what is their material composition percentages and year of deployment? • What has been done internationally and in Australia to manage end of life of solar panel through a) policy and b) recycling technologies? • What could be the some suggested policy changes for the Northern Territory to better manage solar panel waste? • What are the efficient ways for recycling/recovering of panels in the NT? • What various PV panel collection and management models could be suitable for the NT remote regions and to what extent can these models utilise the local labour force? and • What future data capturing options are there?