Councils call for disposable ban.

[ZT]

disps have ruined the GOOD juice industry. No question

A few years ago if id said to anyone coming in the shop “hey! Wanna buy some over-sweetened over flavoured juice from china inside a handbag sized pink personal massager”

i would have been told to fuck right off

now its all newbs want.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

You had me at personal massager, take my money

 

[Toby iVapour]

FWIW, we are seeing more of a shift away from disposables to reusables than previously...

I would guess we sell about half as many disposables as 6 months ago.. but there will be other factors that would have impacted those sales as well...

 

[ZT]

FWIW, we are seeing more of a shift away from disposables to reusables than previously...

I would guess we sell about half as many disposables as 6 months ago.. but there will be other factors that would have impacted those sales as well...

Again though - having looked at your online presence - you are not proverbially ramming them down people throats like a lot of stores.

never gonna change while they are front page news on most sites.

 

[zouzounaki]

there are restrictions in place that if properly enforced would see most if not all the problem go away

i’m not so sure. i think the recycling schemes are a bit of a scam. a lot of it still goes in the landfill. single use batteries in a device that lasts a couple of days to fuel a habitual (i.e daily) behaviour shouldn’t be a thing imo.

 

[MHL]

i’m not so sure. i think the recycling schemes are a bit of a scam

I can never quite decide ... are recycling schemes just a panacea to make plebs feel like something is being done?

Or is there an argument that you need to get a lot of ducks in a row:
1. People doing their part
2. Councils doing their part
3. Industry doing their part

... and that by getting people to do their part now, it will make it easier for 2 and 3 to happen going forward. I can imagine councils are unwilling spend millions to get infrastructure in place if nobody is ready to use it.

 

[zouzounaki]

I can never quite decide ... are recycling schemes just a panacea to make plebs feel like something is being done?

Or is there an argument that you need to get a lot of ducks in a row:
1. People doing their part
2. Councils doing their part
3. Industry doing their part

... and that by getting people to do their part now, it will make it easier for 2 and 3 to happen going forward. I can imagine councils are unwilling spend millions to get infrastructure in place if nobody is ready to use it.

but the problem is that the batteries are only partially recyclable. most of them are made of plastics that a lot of
councils don’t and won’t recycle. whether you throw them on the pavement or “recycle” them, still a significant chunk of it is going in the landfill.

 

[Toby iVapour]

but the problem is that the batteries are only partially recyclable. most of them are made of plastics that a lot of councils don’t and won’t recycle.

Vyko Paper Bar -
https://vyko.co.uk/collections/vyko-paper-bar
(Less than 2% plastic)
They could all end up like this...

 

[Toby iVapour]

Opinion piece in the i -
I have finally kicked a decades-long smoking habit – banning vapes would be a disaster
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/kicked-cigarette-smoking-habit-banning-disposable-vapes-disaster-2481955

.. one day, I was in a queue in my local corner shop to buy my tobacco (and it really was MY tobacco) and I found myself looking at the “two for £10” disposable vapes.
I thought: “Give it a go.”

It has worked. I’m not agitated (too much), not eating too much or feeling deprived. I’m enjoying vaping.
One piece of good news for the do-gooders is that I have bought a reusable device (two actually – to always have one charged) and can see a smoke-free future.
But I would not have got here without disposable vapes. Faulty strategies always need a rethink – or a recycle bin.

 

[andipandi]

9pm LBC Radio (Iain Dale show), all about underage vaping, disposables, phone in, blah blah.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/iain-dale/