Vaping isn't just annoying to passersby who have to walk through clouds of vapor but may be actively harmful to the environment, a new study says. Discarded nicotine vapes contain extremely high levels of lead and other heavy metals in their remaining cache of e-liquid, researchers report in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Vaping isn’t just annoying to passersby who have to walk through clouds of vapor but may be actively harmful to the environment, a new study says. Discarded nicotine vapes contain extremely high levels of lead and other heavy metals in their remaining cache of e-liquid, researchers report in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

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  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Am I the only one noticing that the vape in the thumbnail isn’t the disposable kind? 😆

    I hate disposable anything. Its so fundamentally American to sell those without a recycling program available. And if that means I’m calling Chinese firms American, so be it.