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Brewzz

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How do you dispose of small amounts of your liquids? Maybe you spin out a small amount of a liqiud you don't like from your carto. Just got to wondering about that. Maybe we should be storing it and taking it to a hazardous waste site?

What did you do with your cigarette butts? Did you save them up, and take them to a hazardous waste disposal site?
 

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If you are worried about it, you can pour it over some crumbled charcoal or another active carbon product. This will bind the nicotine safely.

Personally, when I change out my blue foam or a cartomizer is finally dead, I save the material in a test tube. When I have enough collected, I add water and shake it vigorously. I then pour it anywhere I've seen ants entering by house.
 

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If you are worried about it, you can pour it over some crumbled charcoal or another active carbon product. This will bind the nicotine safely.

Personally, when I change out my blue foam or a cartomizer is finally dead, I save the material in a test tube. When I have enough collected, I add water and shake it vigorously. I then pour it anywhere I've seen ants entering by house.

Excellent idea, hadn't thought of that. I think our house is on the mother ant hill of the area.
 

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How do you dispose of small amounts of your liquids? Maybe you spin out a small amount of a liqiud you don't like from your carto. Just got to wondering about that. Maybe we should be storing it and taking it to a hazardous waste site?

Good question. Nicotine is a poison and if you get too much you will get sick. And PG is a stomach irritant and can make a person lethargic.

It is important to NOT chain vape. Make sure nicotine level is at proper level and you get a lot of throat hit from your ecig.

HTH,
Dave
 

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I agree it's probably less harmful than butts... which the sidewalks of my town are littered with (along with spit, barf, urine, dog crap... I hope it's dog... and other stuff that's too disgusting to talk about.) I'm guessing the soles of my shoes are pretty toxic.

That said, I also tend to pour any leftovers into a bottle... it's surprising how good a Frankenvape can be. My big worry about that is that someday it'll be the perfect vape, and I'll have no clue how to recreate it.
 

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"Dilution is the solution to pollution." I would say flush it down the toilet or rinse it down the drain. Of course it is going to end up in the aquifers eventually, but so will the nicotine in our urine, in tossed cigarette butts, used on crops as pesticide, and from plant wastes, what is exhaled into the atmosphere, etc. I can't imagine that a mililiter of nic juice added to millions of gallons of water and other municipal wastes is going to make a noticeable difference. We wash PG and VG down our drains when we use other products such as shampoos and conditioners, along with far worse things.
 
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