Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste - Ars Technica

Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated to enter the trash stream every year in the UK alone. Vapers and vape makers are simply leaving an e-waste epidemic to the planet's future residents to sort out.

Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.

^{Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)}