BBC: Should disposable vapes be banned?

[Deleted member 54254]

I have equal disdain for pods to be fair.

 

[MrDJ]

for anyone old enough back in the day glass corona fizzy drink bottles used to charge a surpluss which you got back when you returned the bottle and it worked for many years.
this does sound like a decent idea but i dont think a quid is enough as people will still just chuck them but a fiver might work when you take it back to the shop you get a refund.
ok so a disp... costs a fiver but will people pay £10 for one but get a fiver back on its return and will the shops take this up as an option as it means much more work for them.

something certainly needs to be done though.

 

[andipandi]

Before disposables and when i worked in a vape shop, many customers seemed incapable of remembering to change/ learn how to change a coil, always filling tanks via the chimney, using incorrect chargers, not even bothering to charge devices, always smashing tanks and glasses, using the wrong ratio of vg/pg juice, setting the wattage wrong, not knowing how to turn a device on or off, asking for a coil for their vape but not having the device or tank with them - or knowing the name of it - or even knowing where it was. All day long, everyday, it was perverted. One customer came in almost everyday for about a year, his vape wasn't working. Sort him out a new set up and he was back the next day and the days after, his vape wasn't working

Disposables solve all those problems for people, a bit like people who wont make sandwiches to take to work, they buy the bloody things, despite the added expense.

 

[Toby iVapour]

what do the shops do with them though? i suspect most of them are bought from newsagents and corner shops.

Yes.. and I doubt most of those shops will offer to recycle... (could be wrong though)

And I think most vape stores do offer to recycle (we do), but I'm not sure on that either...

The main thing though is that many ppl who use disposables can't even get them in the bin, let alone recycle.

 

[Rickster]

I don't like the idea of just banning things, cos the banning people just get drunk on banning things and ban more things.......n before you know it

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Yer barred...

 

[Phrasing]

 

[zouzounaki]

Yes.. and I doubt most of those shops will offer to recycle... (could be wrong though)

And I think most vape stores do offer to recycle (we do), but I'm not sure on that either...

The main thing though is that many ppl who use disposables can't even get them in the bin, let alone recycle.

aye, your last point is the most crucial one but i also wonder what actually happens to them when they are “recycled”.

 

[zouzounaki]

I don't like the idea of just banning things, cos the banning people just get drunk on banning things and ban more things.......n before you know it

look at the fuckin state we’re in, man. there’s a lot of things that need to be banned

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Aye, you need a wee fuckin sit down...