Rules, fires, supply chains and how-tos. Every number links to its source.
Trash is out, the curbside bin is out, and the library battery barrel won't take it either. Here's what Ohio and Mahoning County actually allow.
The battery in a spent disposable isn't empty. Crush it and the chemistry takes over.
From the slot in a Youngstown smoke shop to recovered lithium and copper. A walk through the route.
Facility fires across North America hit a record in 2025, and scrap yards are trending the wrong way. That matters in a steel town.
Fewer students vape than at any point in a decade. Disposables still dominate what they use, and schools are left holding the devices.
A one-day drive at a campus, bar or church can pull hundreds of devices out of the trash stream. Here's the playbook.
A disposable holds a fraction of a gram of lithium. Multiply by 178 million and you get a mine's worth of material in the trash.
Columbus banned flavored tobacco. The state banned the ban. Three courts later, the case sits with the Ohio Supreme Court.
Britain outlawed single-use vapes in June 2025. Nine months later, 6.3 million vapes a week still hit the bin.
