Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

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• variouslegumes@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s insane that disposables with lithium ion batteries are legal.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exact same thought. People want to blame vapes because it’s an easy target, and I’m inclined to join them to be honest, but these batteries are in so many fucking disposable things

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    • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …that ought to be completely illegal

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They literally only exist because of all the government regulations that decimated the industry “because of the children.”

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    • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not exactly. Toy-shaped non-nicotine fruit-flavored cheap disposables, are the best thing to get children hooked up on vaping.

      Tobacco companies used to promote candy cigarettes for the same purpose.

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  • termus@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure they technically aren’t but no one cares enough to stop their sale. Obama banned “vape flavorings targeting children” which all of them seem to be. I’ve only seen them for sale in vape/tobacco shops. Places that get regulated, like gas stations, aren’t carrying them. At least around where I am in the USA.

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• space_iio@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m so happy vapes are illegal in Norway

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re not. Check those laws again, only nicotine ones are banned.

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    • space_iio@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean… Those are the source of the problem in other countries. Take the addictive active compound away and people will stop using it

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I switched from cigarettes to vaping in 2016 – after trying and failing multiple times through an eGo stage – once box mods had evolved to the point of being reliable and delivering a satisfying hit. That mod worked until 2023.

  I’ve since had three fail, and you don’t want to spend $100 (when it’s not Black Friday and your mod dies, that’s the going rate at local vape shops, since I guess the margin on a single-18650 mod isn’t good enough) to be able to use your remaining $12 of juice when a disposable that lasts for a few weeks runs $20.

  As such, I’ve been using disposables for several months now. I don’t like this transition given the waste and danger involved, but nicotine addiction is a bitch.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been vaping since around 2012 and ran through a ton of disappointing eGo clones and mods and got a GeekVape Zeus about a year or two ago and it’s been rock solid. It is a dual battery but that just means it lasts a day or more depending on how often you’re using it.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Disposable vapes didn’t really exist in Australia until the govt banned vaping. Same for illegal tobacco and tobacco gang wars not being a thing until tobacco taxes were jacked up more than the tobacco costs

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• terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why not use capacitors instead of lithium? Sure they won’t hold a charge nearly as long, but they also charge in a fraction of the time too.

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