Laut einer Studie werden in Großbritannien wöchentlich mehr als 6 Millionen E-Zigaretten und Pods entsorgt, trotz des Einwegverbots
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/27/vapes-pods-waste-uk-recycling-disposable-single-use-ban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
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At the same time we are entering an energy price crisis. The amount of Lithium batteries we’ve wasted is frankly disgusting, successive governments should be ashamed of letting this happen.
„More than 1bn vapes have been thrown away over the past four years, Material Focus found. Its study, conducted with Opinium, also showed that nearly half of vapers (47%) were unaware that their devices could be recycled.“
Wild.
We nearly lost Glasgow Central Station because of these fucking things.
They need to be properly banned *yesterday*.
They can still be used in a single use manner. They should have a minimum size or something as they can buy the £4 ones with tiny rechargeable batteries in them.
I wish that they hadn’t combined vapes and vape pods into the same figure. Vape pods don’t contain batteries and while it’s not *great* to throw them away (lots of plastic!) rather than using refillables, it’s not the same tragedy as throwing away batteries that could be recharged many, many times over.
Are people throwing away devices they could be recharging and using with refills/pods? If so then people are just idiots. Or is it something else?
They should ban everything bar the old box mods and tanks set ups that you self refill, people aren’t going to throw them away if they have to pay over a score for a new one.
The law should require any system to have refillable pods and bottled liquids sold at the same location, and a sign pointing out how radically cheaper that is than filled sealed pods.
Incentivise the non-disposable aspect.
I work in sewage treatment, and it is *insane* the number we are pulling out of our rag skips at the inlet works. Mostly dropped and washed down drains I suppose. We’ve had several fires across the company where they’ve shorted and ignited the rag as it’s compacted, not happened at one of my works luckily (yet). Just cannot believe the amount that are coming through, disgusting how many are just being thrown on the floor.
That’s because banning things doesn’t work. Better regulation is what’s needed. This just fosters criminality.
As per a comment made above, part of the problem is it’s so Incredibly difficult to throw away lithium batteries legitimately.
I tried to dispose of a phone battery that had expanded. Checked Google, took it in currys based on the guidance ‚we don’t take those‘ tried the same at few others places that claimed to take them, no luck.
Turns out that where I live the ONLY option is the recycling centre which is pretty far for me and somewhere I don’t head often.
I vape, I use 3000mah battery devices that I keep for as long as possible, I have 3 sitting at home that have not yet been thrown away but basically no longer work, I’m collecting them until it’s worth the trip.
We need to have a more convenient way for people to dispose of them to stop them from just throwing them in the trash.
Because the shops selling them are always allowed to reopen
I find it absolutely infuriating that we managed to start getting rid of smoking, and then just sleep walked into a situation where we have a generation of kids addicted to nicotine vapes and generated a massive pile of e-waste.
Vapes should have been a way to get people off of cigarettes, and that’s it. Nobody who never smoked should have touched these fucking things.
It still costs the same to buy a reusable one + pod (so two total) than it did a disposable one. The packs of two pre filled pods are only slightly cheaper than buying a reusable vape. People are very used to their habit of just getting a new.one rather than remembering to carry their vape around if they didn’t already use disposable ones. If there is little incentive other than goodwill, a lot of people aren’t going to change for no reason
Why do I have to drink from a fucking paper straw because it better for the environment than a plastic straw? At the same time we had a paper medium of consuming plant based nicotine but we discouraged it in favour of plastics and lithium batteries.
Make it make sense. If we can justify the switch from conventional smoking to these plastic monstrosities then can I at least have my plastic straws back.
Make it a deposit scheme. £3 per vape as a deposit. Barcode on every vape. Refundable when returned to a drop-off spot. Used for recycling.
No wonder a squirrel was vaping last week from a thrown one.
Glad I’ve left the industry. Been working proper vape stores for the last 12 years.
It’s going tits up and I’m not here for it.
The worse kind of vaping. High amount of nicotine too.
It’s disappointing that people that dispose of vapes like this don’t give a flying fuck about themselves, the environment of anyone else really. It’s someone else’s problem, but they’re too fucking thick to even acknowledge there *is* a problem.
It really pisses me off that, in a time when you’d hope we’d be more mindful of plastic waste specifically and the environment generaly – ramping up recycling, regulating packaging, taxing carrier bags etc. – we’ve somehow invented a whole new and totally superfluous source of plastic shite.
Walk around any parks, small train station to routes kids walk to school you’ll find loads of the damn things all from small vape shops