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Half a billion cheap electrical items go to UK landfills in a year, research finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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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.