Shouldve been banned three years ago, but those investors wouldn’t make buck. Now that they did we can care for the environment.
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Good. We had perfectly reasonable rebuildables for so long.
And then Juul made disposables popular and in came waves of China disposables.
I saw a disposable vape with a screen and Bluetooth/mic built in. You could play games on it and take calls. That is a ridiculous amount of e-waste.
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Good. The batteries alone being disposable is insane. https://stoke.nub.news/news/local-news/staffordshire-university-graduate-uses-disposable-vape-batteries-to-power-electric-scooter-197624
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now where will bigclive get free discarded lithium cells?
we need a clean, biodegradable version of vapes. maybe use some form of paper? and instead of juice just use the actual leaves from the tobacco plant
Would this create less waste than buying one vape and using it forever?
It would fuck up the environment with butts like it always has. Cigs are shit for the environment, birds eat them and die and they're everywhere. Can't wait for them to completely die out.
I absolutely hate the fact that we as a society just agreed that cigarette butts aren't garbage, because then you have to argue with smokers. Some day people look back and make fun of these assholes
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it's insane they ever took hold. in the 20 fucking 20s. people look at my refillable mod like I'm holding a walkman
As someone who is using a nicotine vape to wean off of nicotine, I still don't understand why people buy disposable ones.
It's less cost-effective, less customizable, and more sketchy.
Personally I think they're useful for one thing and one thing only, a gig/night out. When you don't want to have some kind of battery pack to recharge your vape so you have a couple disposables in your pocket, and if you lose it, shrug, it cost a couple quid.
That said, I back this ban wholeheartedly
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Wow, I normally don't think of England when it comes to countries who have their shit together!
Don’t get used to it.
One time I saw England return a library book on time. It made me so proud.
I think we just get by by knowing we're better than Northern Ireland.
The disposable black market & associated disproportionate rise in youth vaping in Australia results from the illegality of all vapes, not just disposables. It's hard to imagine it becoming a burgeoning black market predicated solely on that vapers find the highly available, better value, relatively environmentally friendly option untenable. Overall a sensible move I think coming from a pro-vape perspective
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