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Vapes, chargers, and other “invisible” e-waste are a 9-million-ton problem.
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While they could and should do better, this seems like another paper straw argument to shift blame to consumers. It’s all our fault for not recycling coke cans.
I get your point but coke cans are efficient to recycle - aluminum takes more energy to create new than to recycle. Plastics have something like 2% recycling rates so "coke bottle" makes the point better.