Stuck on disposables

[Rickster]

interesting. i get your point about encouraging people away from them, which is obvs a good thing. i also tend to agree that manufacturers will keep making them if orders keep coming in, as you say above. 7800 doesn’t seem a huge amount, but how many vape shops in the uk sell them? 2000 maybe? so somewhere over 15 million a year if we take yours as the average?

like you say, paper shops and garages being loaded with them now might make this a bit of a moot point. but then, a few of the supermarkets seem to be dropping them. so who knows. but i def think vendors of all types are a key thing in this.

If there is say a couple of quid profit in each one.(I dunno)..that's difficult for a business to turn down....keeps breed on the table

 

[Toby iVapour]

interesting. i get your point about encouraging people away from them, which is obvs a good thing. i also tend to agree that manufacturers will keep making them if orders keep coming in, as you say above. 7800 doesn’t seem a huge amount, but how many vape shops in the uk sell them? 2000 maybe? so somewhere over 15 million a year if we take yours as the average?

like you say, paper shops and garages being loaded with them now might make this a bit of a moot point. but then, a few of the supermarkets seem to be dropping them. so who knows. but i def think vendors of all types are a key thing in this.

It's estimated that 1.3 million disposables end up in landfill every week -
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2022-0216/CDP-2022-0216.pdf

Dunno how they estimated that, but bearing in mind that only a tiny fraction will be recycled, it's definitely gonna be well over 50 million disposables used in the UK every year.

 

[zouzounaki]

It's estimated that 1.3 million disposables end up in landfill every week -
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2022-0216/CDP-2022-0216.pdf

Dunno how they estimated that, but bearing in mind that only a tiny fraction will be recycled, it's definitely gonna be well over 50 million disposables used in the UK every year.

somebody’s still to tell me how they actually recycle them. i don’t think they can. certainly if i was using them the only option would be putting them in the general rubbish unless the shop offered to take them back, and i wouldn’t trust they wouldn’t end up in the landfill anyway.

 

[Toby iVapour]

somebody’s still to tell me how they actually recycle them.

Recycle vapes - Find a local recycling point
https://www.recycleyourelectricals....at-electronics-can-be-recycled/recycle-vapes/

 

[zouzounaki]

Recycle vapes - Find a local recycling point
https://www.recycleyourelectricals....at-electronics-can-be-recycled/recycle-vapes/

so where i live, i could drive or walk a mile and a half to a place where the battery would be recycled and the rest go in the landfill. or i could throw it in the bin.

 

[Toby iVapour]

so where i live, i could drive or walk a mile and a half to a place where the battery would be recycled and the rest go in the landfill. or i could throw it in the bin.

Do you live that far from a supermarket that has a battery recycling bin?

 

[zouzounaki]

Do you live that far from a supermarket that has a battery recycling bin?

no, but you can only put batteries in them, so i’d need to take the disposables apart first and chuck all the plastic etc in the general rubbish bin.

 

[TP 72]

This is From Vape UK website.

 

[zouzounaki]

This is From Vape UK website.View attachment 313799

that unfortunately is not right. local supermarkets here don’t allow devices in the battery bins, so i’d need to take them apart, dispose of the batteries and bin the rest. only batteries on their own. there is not a facility for me to arrange for kerbside collection for a disposable vape so the only option is recycling centre which is a mile and a half away, where the batteries will be sent for recycling and the rest will go to the landfill.

obvs nobody that buys disposables around here is going to do any of this, so they end up in the general rubbish or dropped on the street.

 

[Netvaper]

Our kerbside collection service only takes batteries not e-cigarettes.