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    Fire and ‘sheer volume’: how Britain’s 6m-vape problem is putting recycling under strain
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    Fire and ‘sheer volume’: how Britain’s 6m-vape problem is putting recycling under strain

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    1. shortercrust on

      People still buy what are effectively disposable vapes. A lot for disposables just added a charging port and some sort of refill mechanism but few people buy them with the intention of reusing them.

    2. SP1570 on

      There’s should be a general rule that the producers/sellers of any product should pay towards the disposal/recycling of such product… otherwise it’s only their profit and OUR cost

    3. NikkerFebu25 on

      Legalise smoking again.

      We taxated the shit out of it, we banned advertising it, we banned it from public places, we made it have gore pics on it, we eventually straight up banned it.

      Yeah it kills people… when their old

      Don’t legislators know old people eventually die?

      I smoke less than a pack per month, why does the UK hate me?

      I had two cigarettes last month.

    4. Deepmidwinter2025 on

      A product that people still claim is a quitting aid – a line spun by tobacco companies – yet kids who never smoked, now use them.

    5. ryoshamo on

      “Read adds: “Across the sector, we estimate around £1bn a year is being spent, or needs to be spent, dealing with this issue … Waste sites are now seen by insurers as some of the highest-risk facilities because fire is so prevalent.”” – Dr Adam Read, the chief sustainability and external affairs officer at Suez

    6. explax on

      Recycling electricals in general has often been a massive pain with few places to actually drop stuff off. And where you can recycle electricals often don’t take vapes or batteries at all.

    7. High-Tom-Titty on

      The only way I see of solving this is to make them too expensive to be disposable as well as a deposit return scheme.

    8. LeoDemiurg1 on

      Vapes is only one of the many problems of the similar nature.

      There is one silver bullet for it all – introduce deposit return type mechanism into battery powered products. It is increadibly difficult, but I don’t see any other way out of the current shit show in the recycling industry.

    9. RockinOneThreeTwo on

      If you ever want proof that the reason we as a society never “do the right thing” when it matters, look no further than shit like this. The vast majority of people don’t give a shit, are deeply selfish, ignorant and irresponsible, and when the evidence of their shit decisions (that negatively affects all of us by extension, and not just monetarily) is shoved in their face, they will deflect and deny until they run out of breath — and a large amount of equally ignorant enablers will come to their defence and get pissy about “how dare you criticise, live and let live” and all that bullshit.

      Existential problems are never going to be solved because so fucking many people who surround us every day don’t think about anyone other than themselves and won’t educate themselves past the length of their own nose.

    11. shark-with-a-horn on

      Companies are being allowed to profit while public services funded by public money are taking on all the cost and risk