• HelloThere@sh.itjust.works
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    Disposable vapes - ignoring all other issues with them for a second - shouldn’t be going to landfill though. They are electronic waste and should be being dealt with appropriately.

    The problem is that it’s next to impossible to actually handle WEEE correctly even for occasional purchases like routers, hard drives, laptops, etc, so how on earth disposable vapes are meant to be appropriately disposed of is beyond me.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldOP
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      It’s far easier for most people to just throw them in the bin though, and the past of least resistance is the one usually followed.

      Even then, even if electronic waste handling was more accessible disposable vapes would still be an enormous additional volume of waste that doesn’t need to exist in the first place.

    • Syldon@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      There are a few shops that will now take electronic waste and manage it. I take all my old batteries etc to Currys.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The problem is that it’s next to impossible to actually handle WEEE correctly even for occasional purchases like routers, hard drives, laptops, etc, so how on earth disposable vapes are meant to be appropriately disposed of is beyond me.

      In South Wales, we can take anything like that to the local tip for free. Household batteries get put in a separate bag and put out with the recycling.

      It wouldn’t be worth the trip for one or two vapes, but a bag full wouldn’t take a lot of space between trips.

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        1 year ago

        You can do that for most of UK though, loads of places have a container for batteries, most supermarkets certainly do. People cannot be bothered.

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          Yep, we’re on the same page. The person I replied to said that it’s really hard to do, so I gave an example of how easy it is where I am 👍

      • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Ditto for London. I assume most local council recycling facilities accept small electrical waste.