In Alberta, recycling an old television costs $2.75. Starting Oct. 1, recycling a solar panel — made of roughly 80 per cent glass, with an aluminum frame — will cost $14, nearly five times as much. That gap alone is hard to explain. It gets harder once you consider the timing: Alberta’s new fee charges solar panel owners today for waste that won’t materialize for another two decades, at a price nearly triple what independent research says the job will actually cost. Read More