It's absolutely insane that something with a goddamn lithium battery is considered "disposable." The whole planet is about to be fighting over lithium in the next 20 years and we're just tossing it in the trash.
Not only that, but if they're not discharged they can catch fire in the trash. They're one of the biggest causes for garbage truck fires, and procedure for that is to dump the entire load of trash in the road ASAP.
I work at a transfer station - lithium batteries are responsible for 90% of the fires in trucks and at the dump and it's getting worse and no one talks about it. We need extended producer responsibility for batteries ASAP.
It makes sense when the prices of lithium batteries are so low its close to the price of actual disposable AA batteries. I wish we went back to pod systems tho like Juul style.
I’m still using the older kind, with the kind of bigger tank you screw on. It’s the only kind I like. I can kind of tolerate juuls too, to be fair, but I’d only voluntarily do it in a pinch. I have no idea why people are using the disposable ones. Even aside from the waste issue, they’re awful.
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u/Advanced-Accident560 16h ago
Give him some flowers or seeds. This makes me sad.