Stock Photo - 25 October 2023, Saxony, Freiberg: Defective solar cells lie in front of the recycling process at a new recycling facility at the LuxChemtech GmbH plant. Among other things, the company deals with the recycling of semiconductors and photovoltaic modules. On Wednesday, a cooperation agreement was reached with solar manufacturer Meyer Burger. According to the agreement, waste from module production will be completely disassembled in a new plant and raw materials such as silicon and silver will be recovered. According to the information, however, the recovered silicon is not suitable for the production of solar modules again, but can be used for other applications. Saxony wants to become less dependent on raw material imports and is therefore pushing the recycling of waste from the solar industry, for example. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa. - Freiberg/Saxony/Germany