Going green

[Moonlitwish]

Anybody start rebuilding or DIYing ejuice because it generated less trash? Or was it just to save money and have more control over your vape? I know one of the reasons I switched from the disposable clearos was to stop throwing so much in the garbage. I couldn't help think it was such a waste tossing all that plastic. Now one of the reasons I want to start building coils is to further reduce the disposable factor of my habit. Am I the only reduce, reuse, recycle nerd in the house?

 

[Dconnor]

I will admit I pretty much never throw away an empty ejuice bottle.

 

[dbrandt01]

The farthest my DIY goes is unflavored and I did that because I don't like flavored e-juices that much anymore and to save money. I never had the mindset of not throwing bottles away anymore.

 

[TheRac25]

save money, cause retail juice prices are not in any way reasonable

 

[crxess]

Waste not want not.

Go Green has been around a Lot longer than the Coined Phrase.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Any money-saver is a green person, whether it was an intention or not. Many green initiatives are not really green.

 

[issy]

I definitely feel better about rebuilding. I baby my batteries and make sure they last, and then recycle them too. I diy juice and have never thrown away a bottle if I can't help it.

 

[HauntedMyst]

I went into DIY for the savings but it's cool to think of the hundreds of bottles saved from a land fill.

 

[roxynoodle]

I don't think I've ever thrown away an empty bottle.

 

[KentA]

Since the flavors, PG & VG come in plastic bottles, I fail to see a green side to DIY e-juice.
Are big bottles more politically correct than small bottles?

 

[mattiem]

Since the flavors, PG & VG come in plastic bottles, I fail to see a green side to DIY e-juice.
Are big bottles more politically correct than small bottles?

In my case they are. Once I emptied my first gallon each of pg and vg I cleaned them well and now hubby uses them as water carry bottles on his motorcycle when he takes his road trips. I've not yet opened my second order of 1 gallon each of pg and vg but I am sure I will find a use for the bottles.
I also reuse ALL the bottle Pre-made juice came in. I was raised in the time where the motto was, waste not, want not. That is what youngens now call going green

 

[Alien Traveler]

Since the flavors, PG & VG come in plastic bottles, I fail to see a green side to DIY e-juice.
Are big bottles more politically correct than small bottles?

Big bottles are greener that small one. You need 1 big bottle for 1L of juice, but 100 small bottles of 10 ml of juice to keep the same volume. You can calculate weight of plastic of one big bottle and see it is less that that of 100 bottles of 10 ml each. To simplify calculations you can reduce problem to spherical bottles in vacuum.

 

[Moonlitwish]

Since the flavors, PG & VG come in plastic bottles, I fail to see a green side to DIY e-juice.
Are big bottles more politically correct than small bottles?

I'm just imagining that the large (ie 1 gallon) bottles use less plastic than the 75 50ml bottles I would have if I bought that much juice retail. I don't have any big empty bottles or that many small bottles to weigh and check for sure though.


*~*moonlitwish*~*

 

[edyle]

Anybody start rebuilding or DIYing ejuice because it generated less trash? Or was it just to save money and have more control over your vape? I know one of the reasons I switched from the disposable clearos was to stop throwing so much in the garbage. I couldn't help think it was such a waste tossing all that plastic. Now one of the reasons I want to start building coils is to further reduce the disposable factor of my habit. Am I the only reduce, reuse, recycle nerd in the house?

The cost factor was a overruling incentive, but the notion of tossing those metal coil heads was always unsustainable to me; actually, I don't think I ever did actually toss any of my old protank coil heads come to think of it; the parts would still be in a cup or can somewhere in case I find somebody to pif my old protanks to.

 

[Robino1]

I use some of my e-liquid bottles for travel shampoo, conditioner and shower gel/soap. Snip the drip tip so the stuff comes out easier. The hard part is getting all those things into the bottle. LOL

 

[Moonlitwish]

I use some of my e-liquid bottles for travel shampoo, conditioner and shower gel/soap. Snip the drip tip so the stuff comes out easier. The hard part is getting all those things into the bottle. LOL

Now that's a nifty idea!


*~*moonlitwish*~*

 

[AXIOM_1]

Am I the only reduce, reuse, recycle nerd in the house?

Satan makes me do it

I save all my bottles as well and just use them for juice I make. But, mainly I mix my own juice because I am a tight wad and don't want to support ejuice manufacturers.

I use some of my e-liquid bottles for travel shampoo, conditioner and shower gel/soap. Snip the drip tip so the stuff comes out easier. The hard part is getting all those things into the bottle. LOL

yeah, I can't tell you what I put into my empty bottles. You will need to use that sharp mind of yours to solve that mystery

 

[Robino1]

Satan makes me do it

I save all my bottles as well and just use them for juice I make. But, mainly I mix my own juice because I am a tight wad and don't want to support ejuice manufacturers.



yeah, I can't tell you what I put into my empty bottles. You will need to use that sharp mind of yours to solve that mystery

Mind is going places it really has no business going....Thankyouverymuch!

 

[AXIOM_1]

Mind is going places it really has no business going....Thankyouverymuch!

Satan made me do it..... but you're welcome

 

[VHRB2014]

No, I did it because I`m conservative by nature. :?)

Mainly, I do like to conserve the green stuff, LOL.