Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week - eviltoast
  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The other thing is that lithium is a finite, hard to get resource that we have a lot of use for, and typically not used in any other mass consumed disposable product.

    So even aside from the above general issues with disposing lithium, disposable vapes are particularly wasteful, because people aren’t throwing out their phone battery every other day, for example.

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      1 year ago

      Gotcha. They certainly seem to have become pretty commonplace. Weird thing here is that even though they’re not meant to be sold here (nicotine vapes), disposable vapes are certainly the most readily available, so I’ve been guilty of buying them on occasion for that reason alone. If you’re using one with a tank or pods (still probably more commonly used here) you basically have to order from overseas