When it comes to wasteful consumption, maybe nothing is as symbolic as the disposable vape.

In 2023, the US alone was responsible for throwing out almost six vapes per second, or tens of millions of vapes a year, according to a report by the Public Interest Network. It doesn’t help that vapes seem engineered to wreak maximum as much havoc on the environment as on human lungs, containing non-recyclable lithium ion batteries housed in a forever-plastic shell.

However, it doesn’t have to be this way. As one 2023 study found, the lithium ion batteries used in most “single-use” vapes could be recharged up to 700 times. If you could somehow harvest all that storage power, it would have considerable value — but how could it be done?

That’s a question YouTuber Chris Doel was eager to find the a

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