Engineer shares fascinating tech project made from vapes found on street: 'Fully rechargeable' Recycling your old vapes properly helps to prevent fires. Councillor Joshua Roberts, our cabinet member for Rural Affairs, Environment and Communities, is urging residents to bring used vapes to their local Turning E Waste into E Power! In my latest project, I collected 130 discarded disposable vapes, harvested their lithium ion batteries, and transformed them into a powerful e bike battery. This setup Christopher D. 4 projects that use recycled disposable vape batteries Disposable Vape Battery Reuse project aocole.net