Relatively new recycling equipment Comstock metals has announced that it has received approval from Nevada environmental departments to process solar panels at its materials recovery facility in Silver Springs, Nevada. Comstock also received approval for an air quality control permit this week.
A slide of Comstock’s Business Overview document.
Comstock has been operating a solar panel recycling demonstration plant in Nevada since January 2024. These permits will allow the company to scale up to an industrial material recovery facility that would process more than 3 million panels annually. The equipment was delivered in the fourth quarter of 2025 and Comstock remains on track to have the first line at the larger facility in service in the first quarter of 2026. The plant will feature technologies for efficiently crushing, conditioning, extracting and recycling metal concentrates from solar photovoltaics.
“Comstock Metals is setting the global standard in solar panel recycling by creating a scalable, reliable, efficient and optimized network of dismantling, collection, aggregation, storage and full recovery processing (and ultimately refining) nodes, designed and built for speed and scale,” said Corrado De Gasperis, Executive Chairman and CEO of Comstock. 
Comstock Metals expects to be able to extract aluminum flakes, glass beads and metal scraps from recycled solar panels.
The plan is to eventually open two solar panel recycling facilities in Nevada.
