France to ban disposable e-cigarettes by 2025
France will ban the selling of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025, French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation, while increasing tobacco taxation.
Good. These are some of the most shockingly wasteful things I've ever encountered.
Disposable anything should be regulated. And only if there is a reasonable requirement to be disposable it can be.. else, nope. This is just manufacturing externalizing the cost of the waste onto society instead of developing proper reusable products and/or making them good enough. Disposable products should be made from stuff that the manufacturer is responsible for the waste/ recycling.
Surgical gloves, yes. E cigarette, nope.
On e cigarettes specifically, after having watched bigclive dismantle lots of them, showing that they are practically just a few tiny cheap components away from being rechargeable and refillable (and they can indeed almost all be recharged and refilled), I guess manufacturers simply saw a market for it. It's stupid from start to finish, but then again cigarettes as a whole are stupid.
From tomorrow onwards would be better
I hopw others follow their example
Disposabe? Good ridance.
But... where else am I going to get free batteries.
You have another year's time! I guess trash-sorting companies would be happy to have your help sorting through the new arrivals.
I wonder what this companies will come up with to replace it. It says single use puffs so maybe the companies will design it to be 2 or 3 use?
It would be so easy to make the cartridge removable with a thread.
But that's not wanted and the decision makers are paid by corporations. They have usually (details vary by country) introduced laws to increase price of cheap and not wasteful alternatives via taxes and regulation by up to 5000%, exactly so the same tabacco companies also producing these single use e-cigarettes can push their electronic waste on us instead.
I'd imagine they'd end up getting done-in by laws on minimum warranties. Vapers would be happy: "Only works 3 times? Sweet, guess I'll use it and get my money back each time."
(How it would go down in Australia if they tried that.)
La gadji c'est plus un paqueta ?