Should be banned everywhere smh. It's crazy that people are just chucking lithium into the garbage for no reason...when vapes started as an easily reusable setup in the firth place.
I remember in the beginning using flashlight batteries, rebuildable atomizers and local house made juices. Im off the nicotine totally now but the scenes changed so much since then, not in the greatest of ways either.
in the firth place
Nice of Colin to lend them his garage, though 🤷
Agreed. I think a huge part of it is down to how many kids are vaping here too. Saw an interview with the Taoiseach (prime minister) and he said 13% of 12-17 year olds had vaped in the last 30 days. Pretty crazy number.
Gov'ts in my area keep ranting about how many kids are vaping, forgetting that they set it up that way by banning RTAs/RDAs and only selling disposables.
How dumb must you be to do that, and throw your hands in the air while yelling "We don't understand why!"
Disposable vapes have to be a thousand times worse than k-cups.
I was floored when one of my coworkers was showing off his vape that played games and stuff and said he went through one a week.
And just about 5 of them have the same capacity as an iPhone battery. Absolutely insane.
Part of why I'm collecting up whatever ones I find to use for my small electronics projects... Even saw someone recently use about 50 or so to make a nice battery bank (was posted here to Lemmy)
I've been using them as the overnight batteries for solar powered projects (like wled controlled lights). I'll be happy to get batteries elsewhere instead and reduce the massive waste.
Have fun with that but please be careful with them. Lithium battery fires are no joke. I would suggest a secure steel lock box to store away when not in use. Or keep it out of the house.
Lithium fires are fast, aggressive and impossible to properly extinguish. Once started they are self propagating and can only be doused until it's essentially exhausted.
I've collected an assortment of them as well. I've got those batteries in several projects so far.
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