Recycling Disposable E-Cigs

[TribbleTrouble]

I asked this question on ecigforum.com last night, but no one gave any response. Hopefully the big forum has an answer for me:

Is there any recycle info on the disposible e-cigs/cigars out there? I have never used them, but I know a lot of people out there have. Do people just throw them into the trash, or do they put them in the recycle bin? I wonder if the people at the recycle center would even know what to do with them.

 

[CssReb]

If I had the knowHow I'd turn them into a passthru.




Love my passthru and APC pack

 

[TropicalBob]

Save 'em. They will be collectibles for your grandchildren, a marker of an era of tobacco decline and shifting addictions.

 

[TribbleTrouble]

I figure, in this enviromentally conscious world we now live in, if there is not a way to recycle disposable e-cigs, not very many people will want to buy them. I hope no one just throws them in the trash.

 

[MAD 69]

Throw it in the trash, no big deal, where do you throw regular batteries? In the trash, all that shyt ends up in the same landfill anyway.

 

[TribbleTrouble]

Throw it in the trash, no big deal, where do you throw regular batteries? In the trash, all that shyt ends up in the same landfill anyway.

Spoken like a true .....**. Thanks for the contribution.

 

[TribbleTrouble]

Oh well. I actually had some good dialog today on ecigforum.com about this subject.

My main concern is people throwing the disposable e-cigs/cigars away without taking into account the hazmat issues involved with putting them in our landfills.

A couple of good suggestions were made. One was to add to the cost of the cig a prepaid envelope for the consumer to send the spent cig back to the manufacterer for recycling. The second idea (which I preferred) was kinda how we deal with glass bottles. Say you save up to 5-10 spent e-cigs, and you get a free fresh one for turning that 5-10 spent ones in to the manufacturer at your cost.

Either way, they don't end up in landfills, and the materials can be reused.

It would be cool if someone else wanted to comment.