Earth Notes: General Bibliography (mirletz2023toxicity)

General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset

[mirletz2023toxicity] Heather Mirletz and Henry Hieslmair and Silvana Ovaitt and Taylor L. Curtis and Teresa M. Barnes Unfounded concerns about photovoltaic module toxicity and waste are slowing decarbonization (accessed 2023-10-17), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-10, Nature Physics, volume 19, report/number 10, doi:10.1038/s41567-023-02230-0, article/pages 1376–1378 (article) (BibTeX).

abstract
Unsubstantiated claims that fuel growing public concern over the toxicity of photovoltaic modules and their waste are slowing their deployment. Clarifying these issues will help to facilitate the decarbonization that our world depends on.

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[Quote: "We globally produce and manage approximately the same mass of coal ash per month as the amount of PV module waste we expect to produce over the next 35 years. Compared another way, globally we will generate up to 440-1,300 times more mass of municipal waste than PV module waste by 2050."]