• A video about disposable vapes, and how addiction became the goal of every single company on the planet.
  • averyminya@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    I just want to say I hate disposable vapes with a passion, they are so terrible for the environment because people inevitably litter them, leaving the plastic and batteries to leech into the environment, let alone the nicotine remnants.

    If you use nicotine, please switch to a refillable vaporizer.

    • Sonori@beehaw.orgOP
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      11 months ago

      Personally, the thing that gets me the most about the whole thing is that the vast majority of the singe use ones you find lying next to the road have perfectly good rechargeable lithium batteries in them. No charging port or easy way to refill them, but for two cent change pins on the main circuit board and a change in the molding the same device could easily be used for a decade or more.

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        11 months ago

        But then the company doesn’t get to charge you 1500% markup on the cost of it every couple weeks/months so it’ll never happen.

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      11 months ago

      I pick up all the ones I see because I’m collecting the batteries out of them. After making sure they won’t spontaneously combust through damaged seals or corrosion, they get a piece of painters tape over all the metal, and placed in a fireproof battery charging bag.

      I intend to make little rc things out of these, or in some cases I’ve managed to replace the 2 AA batteries in electronics with a few vape batteries in parallel.

      With the right testing equipment and know-how (safety first when dealing with things that can burn your life down) You can do quite a bit with these.

      And holy shit the amount I find while just walking or biking around is insane, these things are an environmental disaster and I’ve tried to get people I know to at least switch to refillable tanks, but they’re “too expensive” (only up-front, long term they are many orders of magnitude cheaper) and “it’s too much work to clean/replace coils” (alcohol and cotton batting for both cleaning and coil filler work nicely) which just tells me they care more about their minor convenience than the entire goddamn planet.

      I don’t even fucking vape and I know these things!