Comment on Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers
HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I find them everywhere in my town, just thrown on the ground.
I had no idea what some of them were at first, they looked like Nerf darts or something and then I saw someone sucking on one.
Someone I worked with used to buy all sorts of vapes pre-Covid and I was shocked at the waste they produce. The little one use tanks he would buy, use and just toss. So much plastic and other parts to it, had springs and valves.
I’m glad I never picked up the habit.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
In the common day-to-day shops, they seemed to phase out the earlier refillable/repairable/replaceable ones for “disposable” tops. Even the e-cig shops near us stopped selling the cotton wadding and pre-coiled wires for rebuildables.
With a rebuildable one, I was using a 5x50mm strip of cotton wadding and an 8cm length of very thin wire every month or so. These pod things seem to use a coil, wadding, heating element, metal case, plastic case, spring, screw etc every few days.