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Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded (techxplore.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, don’t get me wrong - I’m very much against banning things in general. You should be able to buy plastic straws, disposable vapes, cocaine and a machine gun at your local 7-11.

I’m just surprised that this isn’t something that they haven’t banned yet, despite being a pretty big issue.

[–] waz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if they just put a deposit on them like we do with cans to promote recycling.

I'm not in favor of banning things, but depending how it is structured I could support structured discouraging.

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Deposit systems can only do so much. We have a new plastic bottle deposit system here in the Netherlands, with about a 70 percent return rate. And you can return bottles at every supermarket.

I don’t think that would work with disposablevapes. Not unless you have really high deposits and strict sales policies. A lot of this stuff also gets imported from China, so that makes it quite impossible to collect deposits on them.