It will probably amount to recycling credit schemes I am sure. But that would definitely boost lithium recycling efforts.

From memory over 1million disposable vapes are thrown away each day, from 500 of the bigger cell vapes a Youtuber was able build a home battery to power his house. I don't think 100% recycled makes sense but there sure is a lot of lithium getting thrown into the bin. Incentives to recapture that are good.

▲

DoctorOetker 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

500? thats just 5x10x10, even the bigger cell vapes would result in a tiny battery to power a house...

▲

Dylan16807 13 hours ago | parent [-]

It was under 3kWh.

	▲	ehnto 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It wasn't huge no, but we are talking about cells we throw away in the millions. Scale up the battery as needed, the cells are basically free.

▲

csomar 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's 730k households in a year. Cool but since these batteries will probably die within a year, then you are only able to cover 1.5 million people or so. I am not against it, but 1.5m in 8b is a drop in the ocean.