In Lutsk, the Clean Lutsk Waste Management Center has begun accepting used e-cigarettes (vapes or "disposables"), the batteries of which are used to produce power banks and flashlights for the military.
This will help to reduce the amount of e-waste and bring victory closer, according to the Clean Lutsk Facebook page.
"Thus, by handing over this type of waste to us, it will not be thrown into the general trash, but later decompose in a landfill for years," the message reads.
Pavlo Berezyuk, a public relations specialist at the center, said that volunteers make power banks, trench flashlights and other things necessary for the military on the basis of batteries from such vapes, reports Society. According to him, there is currently a need for a large of the number of used electronic cigarettes.
"Disposables" can be brought to the central office at the address: str. Trunkina, 7 (Dubnivskyi microdistrict) every day from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Earlier, Ecopolitic wrote, that residents of Lutsk during the first year of operation of the "Clean Lutsk" Waste Management Center hand over for processing more than 15.7 tons of waste and about 10 m3 of organics.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Khmelnytskyi they began to collect used electronic cigarettes (vapes or “disposables”) in order to use their batteries to make initiations for ammunition dropped by FPV drones.
