The ban on disposable vapes is failing to stop millions being thrown away incorrectly, and the devices are still causing chaos for the waste industry, a boss at a leading firm has said.
“We’re seeing more vapes in our system, causing more problems, more fires than ever before,” said Roger Wright, the company’s strategy and packaging manager.
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I’ve noticed this recently that all the companies have just slapped a charge port on the device and maybe a replaceable tank thing and call it “reusable” and that’s that.
Still see them littering the floors everywhere.
Make them very expensive to buy new. Easy.
If the companies won’t do it themselves, the government can help them along by slapping a huge tax on these things, and build up some funding to secure treatment for these dimwits when they inevitably come crawling to the NHS with health issues.
Huge taxes can lead to blackmarket imports. That’s what happened here in Australia with tobacco anyway.
Im beginning to feel like banning things only shifts them to a black market where their consumption becomes completely unregulated and uncontrollable by any government body
if only we had some examples before!
Maybe a core fee for disposing and when you return them you get the fee back or it breaks even when purchasing a new vape.
