I'm a long time vaper, it's got me off the cigs, and I use a reusable tank because it's what I've always used but it's obviously better for the environment and cheaper.
I do support clamping down on disposables because of the waste and these ones seem to be the ones that get into the hands of kids.
However, the whole scare thing about ecigs has always looked like a massive diversion tactic when actual cigarettes are still on sale. I mean it won't happen because it's kerching for the government. But I see literally thousands more discarded cigarette butts than I do vapes round our way.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The fact that these things came out after banning plastic straws shows nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.
aeternum@kbin.social 1 year ago
straws aren't even the problem. The largest source of plastic in the ocean is fishing nets and discarded fishing equipment.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
The interesting question becomes where these are coming from and why. Which countries?
Straws may not be the problem, but I remember straws being washed up all over the beach.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm not sure what you are saying. Straws, like plastic carriers were a well-established product that could be beneficially regulated tp reduce plastic waste. Single-use vapes were a new product category that pretty much came out of nowhere and are now likely to be regulated. Do you want a general purpose ban on every single-use item containing plastic? Not a bad idea, but it would be a big, quite radical change to the way people lived their lives - no biros etc.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Straws a literal drop on the ocean compared to what corporations are doing to the oceans.
I am happy to have paper straws if it helps the planet, but they chose the smallest thing they could do and as always put the onus on the consumers and not the producers.
Maco1969@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most of the world didn’t use single use plastics until the last fifty years, we could get rid of it all easily, we simply choose not to.
Mane25@feddit.uk 1 year ago
This whole government makes a whole lot more sense once you come to the realisation that they’re all mentally challenged in the literal sense. It wouldn’t surprise me if they couldn’t even conceptualise how the two things are related.
Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nah, that does a disservice to both mentally challenged people, and lets the Tories off for how cruel they really are
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Or even cares. As usual cheap Chinese tat (other third world tat markets are available) and its lapped up here without a thought.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
at least nobody’s vaping out of straws
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You might not be!