Europe throws away solar panels. We turn them into fuel for human rights.
MINISOLAR is a real product: a small box that fits in your hand. It connects any solar panel — used or damaged, it does not matter — straight to the phones, lamps and routers people already own.
It is not meant to power expensive washing machines or electric cars. It is for people who cannot call a doctor, prepare for an exam or even see in the dark — because there is no central grid, because of war, or because the state has failed.
We demand that Europe stop destroying working solar panels immediately
Europe takes down solar panels that still work. A few hundred kilometres away, families live without power for years. The panels could go there. Too many go to scrap instead.
Two problems,
one answer
MINISOLAR lets a panel that Europe does not want power a home that has no grid.
Recycling waste
1 million
tonnes
of solar panels Europe will throw away each year by 2030.
Human rights
730 million
people
live without electricity. Billions more have it only some of the time.
One answer
MINISOLAR
Europe will throw away one million tonnes of solar panels each year by 2030.
730 million people live without electricity. Billions more have it only some of the time.
Without power, rights stay on paper
The right to know
News, air-raid alerts and messages from family all arrive on a phone. A dead battery cuts a person off from all of them.
The right to be safe
A charged phone and a lit room let people call a doctor, ask for help and move around at night without fear.
The right to learn
Children do homework and prepare for exams after dark. One lamp is enough to keep a school year going.
From the field — 20 photos. Swipe to see more.
How can you help?
Dear installers,
give us the panels you take down.
Do not scrap a system that still works. We collect the panels and put them back to work.
Dear associations,
bring your members with you.
Tell them a removed panel has a second life, and help us set up collection in your country.
Dear businesses,
fund systems or donate your old panels.
Pay for systems for a community, or hand over the panels from your roof when you upgrade.
Dear EU authorities,
change the rule.
Stop the destruction of working panels. Make reuse the first step, before recycling.
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