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Especially vaping devices. Cigarette butts were at least easier to dispose of than these plastic encased tips and single use vapes.

I don't think single use vapes were ever compliant with WEEE, it's just that it's not enforced.

it's insane to me they designed it to be higher cost(li-ion + usb charging + oled screens!) than just using disposable AA batteries.

It should be helping you to understand just how absurdly cheap per unit a commodity consumer product is.

Vs how much you pay for it.