Garbage trucks aside… I truly wonder what will be happening to all those vapes thrown into the countryside when they degrade eventually. Will we have regular fire seasons due to corroding batteries?
There are lithium ion batteries everywhere. I keep wondering about this all the time because they are just time bombs everywhere. I don’t just mean in the dumps or at the sides of roads either.
How many people have a bag of old phones sitting in their attic or a gazillion other things that have embedded lithium ion batteries in them that will have to off gas one day?
batteries are less of a problem than accumulators (rechargable, eg in a phone) because accus discharge when not used
Would support the idea of this for quite a few things tbh, encourage recycling things properly. Just see how much plastic bags were reduced with a small fee being added to their price. It doesn’t have to be much money if it’s not very difficult.
100%. Deposit systems create a “scavenger class” of people. Imagine a deposit on:
- Aluminium cans
- Glass bottles
- Vapes
…and then introduce legislation requiring reusable (and deposit-managed) fast food containers and overnight you’ve solved a massive part of municipal waste costs.
In the UK we should have deposits for everything. Mattresses, TVs, all the shit that people could pay a nominal fee to have disposed of, but are either too thick or are happy to blight their streets with fly-tipped goods.
Every tweaker in the country would mobilise. If you put a £5 deposit on anything, you’ll never see one at large again…
Let’s put a £5 deposit on teenagers who smirk at me, actually.
Silly teens, I bet they know nothing of the struggles of the red army in Stalingrad.
