Add wheels to them and use them like a vehicle? I call it ‘the electric car’
Someone just needs to do a campaign advertising bigclivedotcom on YouTube, if it’s successful enough the amount lying around should probably drop nicely.
Banning these things should be higher priority than Nitrous Oxide
I’ve been collecting and ripping these apart for the batteries. It’s insane. These batteries are good for several hundred cycles and are usually sat at 3.5-3.7 volts when I find em, so it’s not like the vape is wrecking these batteries beyond use when depleted of liquid either.
Obviously a scourge on society and needs to be banned asap. Oh wait no sorry got my notes for nitrous oxide mixed in there whoops.
Vaping seems way too more common for kids even than smoking was when I was younger, I know people will disagree but it seems they are even easier to get, don’t have any lingering smells and can be hidden pretty easily. The other day I went to a large outside food court place in London and the amount of 13-15 year olds with these weird high nicotine vapes seemed far higher vs the amount of people that smoked when I was there age. I guess similarly to cigarette buts the batteries will just get buried and release toxins into the ground……..
What about the mental health plague causing our youth to resort to self-medicating nicotine with these infernal devices?
I concur the e-waste from these devices is a problem, but the far more pressing concern is why great swathes of teenagers and young adults are using them.
I’ve said it all along. Disposables are an absolute shit stain.
When I started vaping, I started with an Innokin Kroma. I forget what tank it came with, but I was using SMOK tanks for a bit after quickly replacing that Innokin one. The battery was internal, but rechargeable.
Then I got the iJoy Captain PD270. All because I heard 20700 batteries were the future. That thing was a behemoth, and I hated it because of that. 5 years later, I still have the batteries. I don’t know how to get rid of them safely and cleanly.
Then I got the Vaporesso Luxe. Way more my kind of device. Used that until it looked like I really shouldn’t any more (it switched itself on and fired by itself, so I took the batteries out immediately and permanently). Lastly was the Geekvape Aegis X that’s still perfectly fine, but I don’t vape any more…
I refused to even try disposables. I don’t know about now, but the first pod systems pretty much came from tobacco giants. You know… the same industry that spent 20 years trying to kill me. I want my vapes to come from sources that aren’t interested in dragging me into addiction, but rather out of it.
The major takeaway from that article for me is that we’re definitely at a point where a recycling bin for electronic waste would be useful.
I’m not the most knowledgeable on e-waste recycling, I’ll admit it, but I’m under the impression that some of the by products are quite valuable. Wouldn’t this be a good source of revenue for councils if it could be implemented?
There’s a ridiculous regulation on the capacity of e-liquid sold in a device restricted to 2ml in the UK. For example, you can buy 600 puff bars and that’s it. Other countries have 1200, 3500, 5000 puff bars which are virtually the same size, yet can be recharged multiple times and contain much more liquid, and as a result less physical waste.
The red tape in the UK again is helping create much more unnecessary waste. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
For example;
> Regulators have confirmed selected Lost Mary disposable products are illegal, and are urging retailers to remove them from their shelves immediately.
> The evidence revealed that the tested products “contained significantly more than the legal limit of 2ml of nicotine-containing e-liquid from 2.76ml to 3.88ml, with an average overfill of 58%.
Meanwhile those very same devices could be sold with up to 13-15ml of liquid. But we are restricting this, and helping produce more waste as a result. The MHRA is essentially helping create law equivalent of banning re-usable cups and then we wonder about the waste produced?
Why on earth are disposable products built with lithium batteries? (Are they really the cheapest option? Or is it a capacity issue?)
Total waste of a battery that can be used hundreds of times.
Before disposables, there were only pen & sub-ohm tanks. A thing you can recharge, and it also has a steeper 1st step price. And larger bottles of liquid, too. You wouldn’t throw the vape out, just the refill liquid bottle after it’s finished. Sooo much less waste. But now? Batteries littered like McDonald’s cups. That’s insane.
Big problem here is cost.
Refillable vape + coils + eliquid costs way more than baccy + rizla. The payback time being around 3-5 months depending on how expensive a vape you get.
These things solve that problem perfectly. Fiver for a week of vaping, not having to worry about coils? Yes please.
Classic London-centric news, they’re plaguing other parts of the country too!
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Add wheels to them and use them like a vehicle? I call it ‘the electric car’
Someone just needs to do a campaign advertising bigclivedotcom on YouTube, if it’s successful enough the amount lying around should probably drop nicely.
Banning these things should be higher priority than Nitrous Oxide
I’ve been collecting and ripping these apart for the batteries. It’s insane. These batteries are good for several hundred cycles and are usually sat at 3.5-3.7 volts when I find em, so it’s not like the vape is wrecking these batteries beyond use when depleted of liquid either.
Obviously a scourge on society and needs to be banned asap. Oh wait no sorry got my notes for nitrous oxide mixed in there whoops.
Vaping seems way too more common for kids even than smoking was when I was younger, I know people will disagree but it seems they are even easier to get, don’t have any lingering smells and can be hidden pretty easily. The other day I went to a large outside food court place in London and the amount of 13-15 year olds with these weird high nicotine vapes seemed far higher vs the amount of people that smoked when I was there age. I guess similarly to cigarette buts the batteries will just get buried and release toxins into the ground……..
What about the mental health plague causing our youth to resort to self-medicating nicotine with these infernal devices?
I concur the e-waste from these devices is a problem, but the far more pressing concern is why great swathes of teenagers and young adults are using them.
I’ve said it all along. Disposables are an absolute shit stain.
When I started vaping, I started with an Innokin Kroma. I forget what tank it came with, but I was using SMOK tanks for a bit after quickly replacing that Innokin one. The battery was internal, but rechargeable.
Then I got the iJoy Captain PD270. All because I heard 20700 batteries were the future. That thing was a behemoth, and I hated it because of that. 5 years later, I still have the batteries. I don’t know how to get rid of them safely and cleanly.
Then I got the Vaporesso Luxe. Way more my kind of device. Used that until it looked like I really shouldn’t any more (it switched itself on and fired by itself, so I took the batteries out immediately and permanently). Lastly was the Geekvape Aegis X that’s still perfectly fine, but I don’t vape any more…
I refused to even try disposables. I don’t know about now, but the first pod systems pretty much came from tobacco giants. You know… the same industry that spent 20 years trying to kill me. I want my vapes to come from sources that aren’t interested in dragging me into addiction, but rather out of it.
The major takeaway from that article for me is that we’re definitely at a point where a recycling bin for electronic waste would be useful.
I’m not the most knowledgeable on e-waste recycling, I’ll admit it, but I’m under the impression that some of the by products are quite valuable. Wouldn’t this be a good source of revenue for councils if it could be implemented?
There’s a ridiculous regulation on the capacity of e-liquid sold in a device restricted to 2ml in the UK. For example, you can buy 600 puff bars and that’s it. Other countries have 1200, 3500, 5000 puff bars which are virtually the same size, yet can be recharged multiple times and contain much more liquid, and as a result less physical waste.
The red tape in the UK again is helping create much more unnecessary waste. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
For example;
> Regulators have confirmed selected Lost Mary disposable products are illegal, and are urging retailers to remove them from their shelves immediately.
> The evidence revealed that the tested products “contained significantly more than the legal limit of 2ml of nicotine-containing e-liquid from 2.76ml to 3.88ml, with an average overfill of 58%.
Meanwhile those very same devices could be sold with up to 13-15ml of liquid. But we are restricting this, and helping produce more waste as a result. The MHRA is essentially helping create law equivalent of banning re-usable cups and then we wonder about the waste produced?
Why on earth are disposable products built with lithium batteries? (Are they really the cheapest option? Or is it a capacity issue?)
Total waste of a battery that can be used hundreds of times.
Before disposables, there were only pen & sub-ohm tanks. A thing you can recharge, and it also has a steeper 1st step price. And larger bottles of liquid, too. You wouldn’t throw the vape out, just the refill liquid bottle after it’s finished. Sooo much less waste. But now? Batteries littered like McDonald’s cups. That’s insane.
Big problem here is cost.
Refillable vape + coils + eliquid costs way more than baccy + rizla. The payback time being around 3-5 months depending on how expensive a vape you get.
These things solve that problem perfectly. Fiver for a week of vaping, not having to worry about coils? Yes please.
Classic London-centric news, they’re plaguing other parts of the country too!