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I’ve been a vaper for a while, I’ve always used a mod with 18650s, or at minimum a muilt in rechargable battery, what the heck, who buys those single use ones?
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Submitted 1 year ago by Mex@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Five million disposable vapes are thrown away each week in the UK, a fourfold increase over the past year, according to research from recycling campaign group Material Focus.
Disposable vapes, cheap plastic devices designed to give a few hundred puffs of nicotine vapour before being thrown away, are often discarded in bins and on roadsides.
Material Focus estimates that all the disposable vapes thrown away in a year contain enough lithium to provide batteries for 5,000 electric cars.
They should be disposed of in dedicated bins, in shops or recycling centres, containing a mineral called vermiculite to reduce the risk of fires.
By law, every shop that sells vapes is meant to take them back, but it is a facility that costs money to provide, and many do not.
In July, councils in England and Wales called for a ban, partly because of the problems they can cause in waste disposal.
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