Unintended Consequences

[jwbnyc]

Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?

Communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to get rid of millions of disposable e-cigarettes that are considered hazardous waste.

apnews.com

 

[WorksForMe]

They should start shipping them to the FDA. There was very little hazardous waste from vaping until the FDA started trying to "save the children".

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[WorksForMe]

If the FDA can't stop the sale of unauthorized disposable e-cigarettes, maybe Big tobacco and the courts can do it.

NJOY/Altria Asks Court to Stop Sales of Popular Disposable Vapes

Altria Group vape subsidiary NJOY has filed a federal lawsuit, asking the court to stop the import and sale of popular disposable vapes.

vaping360.com

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[somdcomputerguy]

njoy/Altria Asks Court to Stop Sales of Popular Disposable Vapes

"C'mon judges, how do you expect us to monopolize the market if those other guys are around?"

 

[ceeceeisme]

Oh my goodness! If you were a conspiracy leaning individual, you would almost think they planned for this to happen so that when they completely ban ecigs, they will point to this as the reason.

 

[dog man]

How in the world is it possible to stop me from dumping an empty carto in a trash can?
Who can Police that? Are they gonna dumpster dive for my disposables???

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Who can Police that?

Now the suits will start whining about how they'll need more outrageous amounts of taxpayers money so they can battle this new epidemic.

 

[UncLeJunkLe]

Disposable ecigs were around way before the pod craze came along. They weren't a waste problem because vaping wasn't widespread so you never, if ever, saw any laying around.

FDA deserves a lot of blaming for a lot of things, but I don't blame FDA for this. 510 vaping was never meant to last as the vaping market matured. People ALWAYS desire convenience over everything. So I'll lay blame where blame is due here...the consumer. And I bet 90% of those that chuck those vapes out the window would classify themselves as "environmentally focused" citizens . In reality, though, just virtue-signaling consuming machines. Not the same thing lol.

I'd bet that if there were vape recycling bins on every street, there would still be tons of spent puff bars/pods/coil laying around.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

I'd bet that if there were vape recycling bins on every street, there would still be tons of spent puff bars/pods/coil laying around.

Italy launches disposable e-cig recycling pilot programme to tackle green dilemma - ECigIntelligence

In light of the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, Italy has launched a pilot recycling programme, which is currently operational only in Rome and Milan, but plans are to eventually involve more than 60,000 points-of-sale

ecigintelligence.com

 

[WorksForMe]

Italy launches disposable e-cig recycling pilot programme to tackle green dilemma - ECigIntelligence

In light of the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, Italy has launched a pilot recycling programme, which is currently operational only in Rome and Milan, but plans are to eventually involve more than 60,000 points-of-sale

ecigintelligence.com

I don't think recycling is the whole answer. If governments were concerned about the environment, they would make it illegal to sell anything disposable(for one time use) that has a lithium ion battery in it.

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[UncLeJunkLe]

Italy launches disposable e-cig recycling pilot programme to tackle green dilemma - ECigIntelligence

In light of the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, Italy has launched a pilot recycling programme, which is currently operational only in Rome and Milan, but plans are to eventually involve more than 60,000 points-of-sale

ecigintelligence.com

Interesting. I was in Italy in 1997 and one thing that I'll never forget is all the litter, even at beautiful tourist attractions sites. And the virtual mountains of residential trashed piled up in smaller towns. Hopefully things have changed.

 

[WorksForMe]

Interesting. I was in Italy in 1997 and one thing that I'll never forget is all the litter, even at beautiful tourist attractions sites. And the virtual mountains of residential trashed piled up in smaller towns. Hopefully things have changed.

That's the way it was when I was there while I was in the Navy in the early '80s. You had to careful around the piles of trash in the street. Sometime rats as big as cats would come out of them.

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[UncLeJunkLe]

That's the way it was when I was there while I was in the Navy in the early '80s. You had to careful around the piles of trash in the street. Sometime rats as big as cats would come out of them.

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lol, I believe it. I never went near the trash. But also oddly enough there was never a smell of trash in the air either.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

Life in the Old Disposable Dog Yet

A new study finds that vast amounts of waste are being caused by single-use e-cigarette batteries, but they are able to be used for hundreds of charging cycles

www.planetofthevapes.co.uk

 

[Darksand]

Disposable ecigs were around way before the pod craze came along. They weren't a waste problem because vaping wasn't widespread so you never, if ever, saw any laying around.

FDA deserves a lot of blaming for a lot of things, but I don't blame FDA for this. 510 vaping was never meant to last as the vaping market matured. People ALWAYS desire convenience over everything. So I'll lay blame where blame is due here...the consumer. And I bet 90% of those that chuck those vapes out the window would classify themselves as "environmentally focused" citizens . In reality, though, just virtue-signaling consuming machines. Not the same thing lol.

I'd bet that if there were vape recycling bins on every street, there would still be tons of spent puff bars/pods/coil laying around.

I agree to a point, however when it becomes harder to find information of hardware or buy hardware online, it becomes easier to just buy a cheap disposable.

I also think the market became bigger with less available knowledge/info, ergo, buy something cheap.