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  2. Environmental impact of electronic cigarettes - Wikipedia

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    These devices, designed for single use, offer a wide range of flavors and strengths, catering to both novice and experienced users. Unlike their rechargeable counterparts, disposable vapes require no maintenance or knowledge of vaping equipment, making them accessible to a broader audience.

  3. Electronic waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In addition to manually dismantling the devices, unregulated junkyards are ultimate disposal sites. Device disposal is mainly done by burning or smashing and burying the fragments; the aftermath of which has been documented to cause significant health problems in the surrounding area. [38]

  4. Pilot program collected 91 vaping devices from Pueblo schools ...

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    A Pueblo program has been collecting vape devices at local schools as an environmental safety measure that could also help curb teen tobacco use. Pilot program collected 91 vaping devices from ...

  5. Electronic cigarette - Wikipedia

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    The British Royal College of Midwives states: "While vaping devices such as electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) do contain some toxins, they are at far lower levels than found in tobacco smoke. If a pregnant woman who has been smoking chooses to use an e-cig and it helps her to quit smoking and stay smokefree, she should be supported to do so."

  6. EPA takes charge of Detroit-area cleanup of vaping supplies ...

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    The federal government is leading a cleanup of the hazardous remains of a Detroit-area storage site for vaping supplies, five months after explosions destroyed the building, sent debris flying for ...

  7. Amazon and eBay to pay 'fair share' for e-waste recycling - AOL

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    Online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay will have to pay their "fair share" of the costs of recycling electrical waste under new government proposals.

  8. Electronic waste by country - Wikipedia

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    A non-functioning electronic device that is intact can be exported under the current legislation. What can't be exported is a non-functioning but no longer intact electronic device. The principal problem being, the non-functioning electronic device is at high risk of being disassembled in some far away e-waste dumping ground.

  9. Electronic waste recycling - Wikipedia

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    Computer monitors are typically packed into low stacks on wooden pallets for recycling and then shrink-wrapped. [1]Electronic waste recycling, electronics recycling, or e-waste recycling is the disassembly and separation of components and raw materials of waste electronics; when referring to specific types of e-waste, the terms like computer recycling or mobile phone recycling may be used.