source says 1 squirrel, nyp says its an epidemic
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Disposable vapes are genuinely evil. With the lithium inside the batteries they are significantly more dangerous than throwing a cigarette out your car window. They have chips inside them with metals that can be recycled and they are made of a hard plastic that'll be around for thousands if years. Whenever I mention this to people I know they agree with me that it's evil but continue to use disposable vapes because it's more convenient. I keep telling my roommates that it's massively cheaper to get a refillable one and they always agree but never buy one. Every time I go to the vape shop to get juice and coils I drop off a literal tub of disposable vapes from my roommates.
I'm so tired of people being complacent in this and I'm tired of making this rant. People will get nervous about batteries when they see a phone explode in someone's pocket but they'll throw that shit on the ground or in the trash without a second thought. Just go back to smoking if you wanna throw shit on the ground. It's better for the environment and public safety that way anyway.
Blame Trump
They're vaping. They're not intelligent to begin with.
Have you seen this shit?
Factory workers test 1000 of these contraptions per day.
it's truly evil.
Human beings will get extinct due choosing convenience over sustainability.
Wtf that's all kinds of messed up
Welcome to capitalism.
Consume shit that harms you while also harming poor workers and the environment
That's so incredibly messed up
It reminds me of the radium girls
I wish there was a $1/vape return scheme. Like we do here where I live with pop bottles. People would pick them out of the trash to return.
Yeah, I'm not one for banning things willy nilly, but disposable vapes need banned. I'd much rather people vape a liquid refilled repairable vape like the kids used when I was young, but even pod type vapes are better. This is just reprehensibly avoidable e waste.
If you're familiar with how regulation of the nicotine-industry in the u.s. works then you probably know disposable vapes polluting the streets can be directly connected to the regulation of vape-juice and "e-cigareettes" from a few years back when the fda banned disposable flavored cartridges like menthol.
no more disposable cartridges now but lots of disposable whole e-smoking devices.
Yeah it's wild to me that the ban wasn't a blanket "no product may be sold containing both nicotine in psychoactive doses and pleasant flavorings other than menthol or those found naturally in tobacco or intended to recreate the flavor of tobacco may be sold". Like they could've killed those gross flavored swishers that exist solely for making blunts while they were at it.
Like, I don't mind a "buy a flavor bottle and it has room for you to mix in a bottle of one of the various concentrations of unflavored nicotine sold right next to it" situation, but that level of inconvenience is good. It always forces you to choose your dose and means that when kids get ahold of the stuff it's easier for them to get ahold of the nonaddictive version. What we have now is a bunch of e waste that also ensures that there's a lot of access to nicotine for children.
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Why vape in the first place?
I like nicotine
Using it to quit smoking is a good idea, and the only one actually.
But disposable !? FUCK ME this world is doomed...
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I vape cannabis. Whenever I go to the dispensary, it always surprises me how many disposable products there are. Some strains it's not even possible to buy them as non-disposable carts at some of the IL dispensaries I go to. I always try to pick standalone carts, but I have also had it where I've ordered a cart online and they ended up trying to give me a disposable replacement without asking.
It's nuts to me that people are buying these rechargeable things with batteries to throw out as a default (it's definitely seems more popular than re-usable carts at dispensaries I've been to). Why wouldn't you want your own device with your settings saved if you vape versus using some random piece of shit attached to the very expensive goop you're smoking? I don't get disposables at all. You start saving money after 3 or so carts if you buy your own battery.
Even worse: if you wanted to recycle one of them many are designed with housings that make it nearly impossible to open them up and replace the cartridge.
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The squirrels were sighted shortly afterwards in a poorly modified Subaru WRX.
...We can make nicotine bird feeders, which have little hookah straws, through which critters can enjoy life. 🤔
The tobacco-toting treehopper
What tobacco? The whole point of a vape is that it doesn't burn tobacco...
They just wanted to do some alliteration
Why stop there? A terrifying tobacco-toting treehoper named Terry the terrible tarantula towers above in tree tops.
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Not the onion but NY Post, which is almost the onion
This is horrible
for real. squirrels need to switch to a plant based, biodegradable alternative
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