Disposable equals wasteful. I hope they fail big.
With you all the way on this. I tried the Aspire Gusto. In the UK tank capacity has to be 2ml or less, so Aspire just built in a big chunk of plastic to limit the capacity. Though they can be refilled, they’re not designed that way and most people would just bin them. Plastics, metals, setting up of industrial machinery, raw materials, energy. It’s all very wrong, and expensive not just financially.
I’m about to start on CBD for severe pain, and can’t use the mods I use for cloud vaping nicotine. At £40 for 10ml I’m damn well not going to be leaking any either. I’ve settled on a refillable pod with a ceramic coil as the best I can do. The battery is 1100mAh so won’t get spent as quickly by constant charge cycles.
To be honest, I’m pretty surprised a new industry that listens to health concerns and tries hard to be morally responsible is producing non refillable pods. As an example, I remember the “popcorn lung” fake news story where a popcorn factory worker who mixed the buttery flavours for popcorn developed a lung condition from inhaling the stuff. The vape industry took immediate note and many manufacturers removed Diacetyl from their products immediately. Here’s the Snopes article.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vaping-causes-popcorn-lung/
I’m pretty sure if I wrote a letter to Imperial Tobacco saying that a few of the 500 additives they’re legally allowed to add to tobacco cause health problems I wouldn’t even get a reply. There’s big money in the vape business now, the opportunity is there to make things sustainable. The chuckaway of gas station e-cigs plus their batteries, the non refillable pod, is not the way I want to see this go.
Don’t even start me on coffee snob pod machines...
Edited to add the Snopes article, apologies but a large plate of ham and eggs landed in front of me as I was typing.