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More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
(www.theguardian.com)
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single use vapes are one of the most wasteful products imaginable
It's also so much more expensive than just buying a refillable vape
Refillables and juices have been disappearing for the last few years. Almost all that’s left is disposables
That's really unfortunate but I order all that stuff online anyway
Canada banned RTAs and RDAs a few years back so we're limited on mods we can buy.
That was the stupidest thing the gov't could have done. Instead they should have kept the RTAs and RDAs (with the more expensive reusable mods) and banned the disposables.
And then we have the problem of batteries dying out and having to dispose of them or the whole device.
Same goes for any other device with a lithium battery. Refillable vapes last quite a while at least.
Yes, no reason to add a new one to make the problem bigger.
Depends on how much someone uses it but it ends up adding to the already growing battery waste.
Lithium batteries can be recycled so it's not really generating waste to use them unless you're throwing batteries in the garbage.
The only reason why the industry moved to disposables is because of all these heavy handed regulations on the industry which did nothing toward their stated goals of 'keeping them away from kids' and just created more issues. If we could go back to refillable mods with replaceable batteries, the waste issue caused by disposibles would be mitigated.
I don't even understand how they're so fucking cheap to make? I don't vape but I smoke the disposable weed pens when im hunting or golfing and they cost the same per mg of weed as just the carts you need your own battery pack for. OK as I'm writing this I'm realizing it may be the profit margins of weed that is dictating this and not the cheap disposable pens🤣
I agree. My coworker buys disposable vapes with full color LCD screens and all other types of gizmos and they cost about the same as a single bottle of juice for my $100 mod.
Make your own eliquid and you only pay a dollar or two for a 120ml bottle.
But you gotta think about how much they spend over the course of the disposables, which hold a tiny amount for how much they cost. So getting a bunch of disposables might seem cheaper, but for the same price you'd probably be able to get a mod, tank, and a bottle with a lot more ejuice overall.