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The UK Throws Away 1 Million Vapes Each Day, Causing ‘Environmental Nightmare’
(plantbasednews.org)
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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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.
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.
As is tradition
Make it so that brands need to accept electronic devices back for free.
Or unlock them for Linux so we can keep using them after EOL.
I vape Arch btw
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
Not enough dead billionaires.