These things should be taxed heavily
Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
These things that were banned earlier on this year?
Also if you’d bothered reading “Their research found that the number plastic bags littered on beaches reduced by 80% between 2015 and 2024, after a charge on carrier bags was introduced.” Which means that the ban should ultimately lead to a massive reduction in this kind of waste but a couple of months isn’t enough time to see the knock on from the ban.
Also in the article but plastic waste from fishing was a higher percentage than these vapes but obviously that doesn’t make for such a “clickable” title. Maybe they should tax fishing supplies more heavily to follow your “logic”
Maybe the problem that needs to be addressed here is the fact that people are filthy fucking cunts and littering in general should be addressed rather than taxing specific items as a knee jerk reaction.
baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Wow that was a lot of vitriol in one post. Hope you're doing ok.
Over here these disposable vapes are unfortunately not banned (which I would prefer too) so taxation would be a step in the right direction. We do have litter here too though, as has been the case with mankind since day one of civilization.
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.