My information comes from installers and dealers of used panels.

The rate of solar panel replacement is extremely low. Very few people replace their panels. Modern panels also don't degrade very quickly, often warrantied for less than 0.5%/year. Most people who do replacements are the much smaller number of early adopters.

These are just facts. The supposed "avalanche" of old panels has not appeared. In other words if you compare # of panels produced per year to # of panels being thrown away it is more favorable than most products. Not that any of the articles you posted even make an attempt to run those numbers.

I stand by my point: both solar panels and batteries have been steadily improving year after year. They last longer than people think and are not creating a tide of waste as the nay-sayers keep predicting in order to squash these technologies to promote burning fossil fuels.

Your first link is speculative, and just assumes that old solar panels are going to the landfill, which is exactly what OP is saying won't happen.

Are your other links relevant at all either?

much more relevant than OP's unsourced speculations I think!

The first link is not "speculative". It's projecting from the current (very high) rate of landfill waste to try to predict how much will be going to the landfill with the ongoing boom

It does no such thing. Why would you lie about that when anyone can just go and read it?

> Using real U.S. data, we modeled the incentives affecting consumers’ decisions whether to replace under various scenarios

They model replacement, and assume that the replaced equipment is going into a landfill, which is exactly the OP's point that it won't. It's entirely speculative, and based on assumptions OP says aren't true. Why would you post that?