Topic: disposable propane cylinders are one of the stupidest and wasteful things invented
boof started this discussion 1 month ago #120,667
people sometimes toss them before empty, and there's been waste management situations where one exploded in a crushing process
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #1,320,641
you can reuse them for a while if you take good care of them
boof (OP) replied with this 1 month ago, 4 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,320,642
I wonder if anyone has attempted to do fill/empty/refill cycles quickly until failure, just to see how long -- a bit risky, as failure can be dangerous
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 2 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,320,643
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 26 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,320,646
Mostly those are for people that use 2 canisters per season and the $8 outlay isn't that big of a deal. They're hopefully not going through them like energy drinks otherwise refilling or bigger canisters make more sense like you guys said.
Anonymous B replied with this 4 weeks ago, 10 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,320,696
@1,320,642 (boof)
It would cost nearly nothing to just make all of them officially refillable in the first place, but the pre-filled canister companies lobbied for the right to sell the "disposable" canisters that are slightly less safe to refill and illegal to sell refills for and then jacked up the price on the standard refillable canisters. They know customers would rather buy canisters once and refill them, so they've priced some customers out of buying the safer product and baked most of the price of refills into the standard canisters to make more money selling both the refillable cans and the disposables.
It would cost nearly nothing to just make all of them officially refillable in the first place, but the pre-filled canister companies lobbied for the right to sell the "disposable" canisters that are slightly less safe to refill and illegal to sell refills for and then jacked up the price on the standard refillable canisters. They know customers would rather buy canisters once and refill them, so they've priced some customers out of buying the safer product and baked most of the price of refills into the standard canisters to make more money selling both the refillable cans and the disposables.
(Edited 19 minutes later.)