Simon G
Olympian
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Taking them to a vape shop is all well & good, but that does not solve the problem that disposables have created, they can't or currently don't recycle these & they just end up in landfill sites I can't wait for the ban too come in & don't believe the crap that some people find refillable pods or changing a coil difficult, like fook me most smoked & figured how to do a rollie & other things in life like make a coffee or am I too believe they was too dumb too even do that.
The amount of plastic waste we generate cannot ever be solved by recycling, there's just too much of it.
https://news.sky.com/story/china-re...-prompting-fresh-environmental-fears-11159667
2017- it's only got worse
Simon Ellin, chief executive of the Recycling Association, told Sky News: "We have been warning the Government for quite a long time that China will at some point say 'enough is enough. We don't want the world's garbage. We want to stimulate our own internal collection'. We have seen it coming."
However, China has announced that it will stop taking the UK's scrap from January and those in the industry are warning that the Government has no plan or infrastructure to deal with the situation.
Elena Polisano, oceans campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: "Instead of confronting our growing problem with throwaway plastic at home, we have been shipping it off to places like China where it's easier for us to ignore.
"Now that China has decided they've had enough of our waste, it's obvious that the UK's recycling system simply can't cope with the mountain of plastic waste we generate. It's time to stop kicking the plastic bottle down the road and finally getting to grips with the problem at source."