There are a lot of things that get landfilled that have some marginal value, but generally if there’s not a huge amount of money to be made recycling things they won’t get recycled. It might not be ...

Chris Doel collected vape batteries that were left at a music festival and created a battery to power an e-bike. Chris Doel collected vape batteries that were left at a music festival and created a ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WPTV) – A lithium-ion battery in a vape pen started a fire at a Florida home on Monday, officials said. Marc Theaman, who is renting the home with his family, said it was around ...

Millions of single-use electronic cigarettes get thrown away, despite having a working battery inside. So someone decided to tear apart hundreds of vapes to extract the batteries. The goal: to power ...

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Why it matters: Vaping has been around for a long time, but its popularity didn't skyrocket until the early 2010s. Since then, it has significantly contributed to the world's e-waste problem, with ...

Chris Doel, a 26-year-old electronics engineer, has done what his YouTube audience kept asking him to do: power a road-legal electric vehicle using 500 batteries extracted from disposable vapes. He ...

Forward-looking: The push for renewable energy has made lithium one of the most in-demand materials in modern supply chains, so it's unsurprising that people would look for ways to recycle it. One ...