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E-cigarettes and a new threat: How to dispose of them

  • Written by Yogi H. Hendlin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco
A discarded Juul on the floor of a San Francisco streetcar March 20, 2018.Julia McQuoid, CC BY-SA

The two largest global brands of capsule coffee, Nespresso and Keurig, are regarded by many as environmental nightmares. Billions of the throwaway nonrecyclable plastic products currently clutter waste dumps, waterways and city streets. Both inventor...

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