US headquartered SOLARCYCLE has announced that it had started recycling operations at its new 255,000 sq ft facility in Cedartown, Georgia. The plant used newer recycling lines with higher processing capacity than earlier systems and recovered most materials from end-of-life solar panels including glass and metals. The site is already handling thousands of panels each week and is planned to scale up to about one million panels per year by end-2026, equal to around 5 GW annually at full capacity. The facility is located next to a planned solar glass factory. It formed a combined recycling and manufacturing campus. Most of the glass plant’s capacity was already committed, with construction scheduled for mid-2026 and production planned for 2028. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported continued growth in utility-scale solar in 2026 and 2027, which is expected to increase demand for solar panel recycling by SOLARCYCLE.