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Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape by estimator7292 on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:36PM (#45255215)
IMO the most egregious part is that all of these vapes come with perfectly good rechargable lithium batteries at a time where lithium is one of the most important resources.

And they all just go into a landfill without ever being recharged once. It really should be criminal.

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Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape by bjackman on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:51PM (#45255393)
FWIW a ban came into force this summer in the UK. Rare W. Hopefully the rest of the world follows suit in time.
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Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape by userbinator on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:28PM (#45256629)
Guess where that lithium came from in the first place? It's just going back where it came from, in a more processed form, for "storage" until miners get to it in the future.
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Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape by bschwindHN on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:12AM (#45261789)
Yep, it was just some teenage dinosaur's vape in the past. The circle of life!
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Re:Hosting a website on a disposable vape by jondwillis on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:49PM (#45257122)
I have a (fire resistant) bag full of these batteries.

A hammer, a gentle swing, and some clippers are pretty much all you need to get the batteries out of these disposable vapes.

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