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 Gold Bar 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 off by getting some pliers and pull the plastic end out.
Then grab the other plastic end and pull it off with some pilers, this end is a bit trickier but should come off too.
Now get a screwdriver or something similar and push inside one end to make all of the insides come out of the other end. I pushed the non-battery end to be on the safe side.
Here are the insides completely out of the metal tube.
Next I would pull the section off with the filter inside to remove it.
Then separate the rubber from the plastic tube and filter.
Now you have to try and get the battery out and disconnected. Its not easy as both ends are connected to something. I found it best to cut the rubber part at the top to free the component then can pull it through the plastic tube to free the battery.
Then remove the plastic tube from around the battery.
Now you should be able to pull any sticky pads off the battery then snip the red positive wire from the end of the battery.
Now snip the two wires from the other side of the battery to remove it completely.
Now you should be left with these parts.
When I did this I pulled out the heating element part from the metal tube to relase that first. A better way is probably to snip the wire where the red and blue wires meet in the above image. Then you can remove the rubber part completely and focus on the metal tube next.
Try and pull the heating element down and you should then be able to unwrap it. There is a small plastic piece inside that metal tube that keep it all in place, try to remove that and it should all pull free of the metal tube.
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 had a lot of these so did them all at once, before and after shots 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/