It’s like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it’s run out.
You can actually buy that shit too! They sell them in petrol stations for god only knows what reason.
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ojmcelderry@lemmy.one 1 year agoExactly. The fact that “disposable” vapes even exist is mind-boggling. And now they account for more than half of the electrical waste going to landfill. 🤦🏻♂️
Why do they even exist? Can’t they be banned?
It’s like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it’s run out.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
peter@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Disposable vapes are actually made in a way where they would be fully reusable if they had a charging port and replacement cartridges available so it’s not even anything but pure greed and laziness