• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I wouldn’t mind this over in the states. I see these pieces of crap strewn out all over the place outside. I see refillable ones like juuls pretty often too but not as often as the little tykes lookin disposable ones.

    • flicker@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Agreed.

      But I just know we would get the what about muh freedom crowd who thinks freedoms should include the right to destroy yourself and everyone around you and the environment.

      I sometimes wonder if the Love Canal had happened in modern America, if we would have had a movement to force it cleaned up, or if we would have a bunch of mouth-breathers demanding their right to spend too much for land tainted with industrial wastes.

      Anyways, congrats to you all for putting a lid on this menace.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        or if we would have a bunch of mouth-breathers demanding their right to spend too much for land tainted with industrial wastes.

        Good news! America has plenty of land and water ruined by industrial and agricultural waste that it hasn’t protected. (Also lots that it has, but)

        One such case was a lake that suddenly formed in a desert when an irrigation canal overflowed. It has since been fed primarily by runoff from industrial agriculture. It became a resort and tourist destination for a time, until all the birds and fish started dying and rotting on the beaches. We just let it sit there for another fifty years until farming techniques improved to where it was being fed much less, and it started drying out and causing big toxic dust storms. In the last six years or so, more than a hundred years after it formed, there’s a local Indian tribe trying to get a new canal to rehabilitate the wetlands with river water (rather than just more runoff).

        It’s called the Salton Sea

    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      There used to be a massive market of regular battery/tank style vapes and juices. Around 2020 they started cracking down on flavored vaping stuff and it killed almost the entire market of vapes at the time, and left a void that is only filled now by countless disposables companies with strong as hell 5% juice. There’s simply no good options anymore if you don’t want a high concentrate disposable