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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months ago

The UK Throws Away 1 Million Vapes Each Day, Causing ‘Environmental Nightmare’

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months ago
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New research has found that most disposable vapes are being thrown away instead of recycled, causing environmental pollution.
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    Just pass a law that anything intended to be disposable needs to be made with 100% biodegradable material. Selling refillable oil is obviously cleaner and cheaper to make.

    This is just profit over planet.

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      Make it so that brands need to accept electronic devices back for free.

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        Or unlock them for Linux so we can keep using them after EOL.

        • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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          I vape Arch btw

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            Can it run doom

            • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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              Sure

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        Already the case in Germany, yet everyone still just throws them away out of convenience

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          deleted by creator

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      Then they lobby a law to define 100% biodegradable and the lobbyists successfully push for it to mean it will EVENTUALLY bio degrade*

      *In 1000 years

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        Not enough dead billionaires.

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      It would need to be naturally biodegradable without leaving any kind of dangerous chemicals. A lot of so called biodegradable plastics can only actually be biodegraded in an industrial compostor.

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        Sounds like we need things that aren’t disposable

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      As is tradition

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