I went for a walk and found a vape on the ground. It had a symbol of a cross through a bin so I thought I should be a good citizen and dispose of this thing properly. I searched the internet and found an article that said to disassemble it, carefully cut the wires to the battery, put the liquid receptacle in the bin and drop the battery off at the local Officeworks for recycling. 🙄 The thing was solid, it had no screws and seemed to be impossible to open. At least you can put cigarette butts in the bin…
You have to do all that to dispose of a vape? There’s gotta be thousands littered around. Where I live you can just drop them off at a local tip so I keep mine and when my “dead vape” tin gets full I just take them all at once. Even though it’s so easy to get rid of them properly there’s still WAAY too many just lying around.
Australia seems especially shitty recycling e-waste. We’re probably supposed to do the same thing with electric toothbrushes but I bet no one bothers.