Firstly, safety – The batteries can still carry an electrical charge and can be dangerous still so if you are not confident then I would recommend you put the whole thing into battery recycling rather than try to break it down yourself first. For those who wish to contine I have put a guide below on how I disassemble and recycle the Blu disposable electronic vapes or Cigarettes I find.
First of all, get your tools ready, I use a couple of pairs of different sized Pliers, some snippers and a screwdriver.
Here is what they look like at the start.
Start by getting some pliers, gripping the mouth piece end and pulling it off.
Take the little white piece out with some pliers or similar.
Now get hold of the white rubber part inside the metal tube and pull, with any luck you should be able to get the insides out in one go.
Knock the plastic end part off by passing a screwdriver through the metal tube.
Now you can start carefully unwrapping the sticky foam part from around the battery.
Then pull off the other stickers, tape and foam parts.
Now snip the red wire away from the battery. Always do the red wire first on these to avoid getting a shock.
Now snip the two black wires away from the battery.
Next pull the rubber and fabric parts out of the vape liquid tube.
Pull these parts off to expose the wires to the coil.
Now snip the wires either side of the coil (you can’t actually see the coil as its inside the fabric piece).
Pull the wires out of the rubber part.
And again, pull the wires out.
Once you have done that everything should be nicely separated. Recycle the plastic and metal bits in your normal plastic and metal recycling. The battery can be taken to battery recycling, they have these in lots of the big shops and your council should have various facilities. The electronic part and wires can be put in the waste electrical equipment recycling (all councils have these facilities). The rubber is sometimes recycled but sometimes not. If not you can bin it with the fabric pieces.
I tend to pick these up in the street whenever I see them and recycle the pieces as above. I had a lot more of these to get through as you can see below!
Well done for recycling these items and having a positive impact, read more here: https://junglebiscuit.com/guide-on-how-to-recycle-disposable-electronic-vapes-or-cigarettes/