IMO the most egregious part is that all of these vapes come with perfectly good rechargable lithium batteries at a time where lithium is one of the most important resources.

And they all just go into a landfill without ever being recharged once. It really should be criminal.

Guess where that lithium came from in the first place? It's just going back where it came from, in a more processed form, for "storage" until miners get to it in the future.

I have a (fire resistant) bag full of these batteries.

A hammer, a gentle swing, and some clippers are pretty much all you need to get the batteries out of these disposable vapes.

FWIW a ban came into force this summer in the UK. Rare W. Hopefully the rest of the world follows suit in time.