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How would an additional tax address this? Paying more would hardly reduce usage, and definitely won't incentivize users to dispose of vape pens more responsibly.
Do bottle deposits (a few cents that you get back for returning empty soda or whatever bottles to the right place) actually work? If they do, maybe the same model would work for this.
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There's a huge difference between restricting people's right to defend themselves and their right to purchase shitty single use electronics that slowly kill them
If untrained people try to defend themselves with a pocket knife they are more likely to hurt themselves.
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at least we'll mine them. with helium, we put it in party balloons and lose it to space.
There's plenty of helium in the solar system (granted, a bit further out) and the sun is producing 595 million tons per second.
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> The joke I always like to make is that in the US everything is legal unless the government legislates to say you can't Guess where the US got that from? Yes, the UK, and it still applies.
I think you're forgetting something called the CONSTITUTION which gives a number of rights that one doesn't have in the UK like -Freedom of expression (can't be arrested for social media posts, can't easily get sued into the ground for libel[0]) -Right to bear arms (technically legal for citizens to organize their own militant force, though often discouraged) -Right to remain silent (it is always advised to never tal…
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There's a huge difference between restricting people's right to defend themselves and their right to purchase shitty single use electronics that slowly kill them
You mean, people's right to attack other people.
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at least we'll mine them. with helium, we put it in party balloons and lose it to space.
There's plenty of helium in the solar system (granted, a bit further out) and the sun is producing 595 million tons per second.
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It would probably cost more to recycle them; they are not like aluminum cans or glass bottles that can be easily recycled into raw materials.
I don't think that prevents a programme to encourage responsible disposal. A $5 deposit on these vapes would get people to return them, and they could be recycled en masse even if it does cost more.
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I don't think that prevents a programme to encourage responsible disposal. A $5 deposit on these vapes would get people to return them, and they could be recycled en masse even if it does cost more.
I like the idea of a deposit but you still need someone to accept the waste - point of a deposit is you get it back, so how do you fund the responsible disposal?
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Do you have a citation for that? Most people would not consider a 3+ inch blade a pocket knife and even then it’s not illegal if you have a good reason: https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
You can't carry a packet knife with a blade length over 2.5" into any US federal buildings: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/930
I’m a UK vaper (former smoker) and while I’m sure I’m going to find this annoying (disposables are helpful in a pinch when your proper vape has run out of battery or liquid), it’s clearly the right thing to do. The e-waste involved in that sub-industry must be absolutely horrifying. Tens of millions of tiny little batteries, surrounded in plastic, lingering quantities of nicotine-rich liquids… Glad this is happening.…
This begs the question: why do you use disposables, then, and will apparently only stop when they are banned if you think they are so bad?