As a vaper of cartomizers, does anyone know if anyone is recycling used up cartomizers?
Or dead batteries?
Or dead batteries?
Cartomizer Recycling? Battery Recycling?
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Dunno. Maybe the batteries could be recycled wherever regular batteries are supposed to be recycled. Cartos - some people manage to clean an get even more life out of them. You are refilling them right? And using them until the performance goes down? After that if you want I guess you could strip the cover and rip out the insides and recycle the metal? I am just guessing. I've only been vaping 4 months w/ 4 ecigs and have not had anything die yet. I stacked my used cartos and plan to try a cleaning.
Was just wondering if there was a specific collection point for these type of things. I am a tree-hugger and want to do the right thing when the time comes. I hated the mess and trash associated with analogs and want to do my part not to junk up the world with my e-cig trash if there is a place for proper disposal. Thanks.
I would think you could take the batteries to anyplace that recycles rechargeable batteries. They are lithiuim-ion just like in cell phones, laptops, and alot of other things. I know some stores have boxes you can drop em in. Home Depot maybe.
As for the cartos, which are steel I'm guessing. Only thing I can think of would be a scrap metal yard. Would take a long time to go through enough cartos to be worth the trip.
It would be pretty funny. Going to a scrap yard with like a 55 gallon trash bag of dead cartos.
As for the cartos, which are steel I'm guessing. Only thing I can think of would be a scrap metal yard. Would take a long time to go through enough cartos to be worth the trip.
It would be pretty funny. Going to a scrap yard with like a 55 gallon trash bag of dead cartos.
I would remove the connectors from the batteries before recycling the battery part of the "battery". The connectors sell for $2-3 and are used for mods. I would think/hope the lithium ion portion could be recycled or at least properly disposed of wherever other batteries are.
Cartomizers can be rebuilt, seems like a fairly complicated process for such an inexpensive part, but at the very least the threaded piece could probably be removed and re-used by modders (like the battery connectors, these are also sold for about $2 and used by modders). I wouldn't hold out much hope for the rest of the carto, might just need to be scrapped.
Cartomizers can be rebuilt, seems like a fairly complicated process for such an inexpensive part, but at the very least the threaded piece could probably be removed and re-used by modders (like the battery connectors, these are also sold for about $2 and used by modders). I wouldn't hold out much hope for the rest of the carto, might just need to be scrapped.
Vaprgal - I've seen on PIF wants thread posts for dead batteries. Seems there's a need for almost anything. Even seen recycled shipping envelopes and carto condoms there...Defiantly something you could check out to reduce/reuse/recycle!! 
**just saw a request for dead 510 batts on wants..
**just saw a request for dead 510 batts on wants..
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If you send them to China I am sure they will make something out of them and sell it back to us for round 2, like grind them up and make pancake mix out of them. Organic type stuff, eh.
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