Experts slam vape shops for what they say is their continued failure to offer 'takeback' recycling schemes as required by law.
Campaigners are demanding urgent action as research claims 250 MILLION disposable vapes will be thrown away before the 2025 UK ban.
And its new study warned without swift steps to address this, the UK will be swamped by a shocking quarter of a billion wrongly-disposed vapes before they’re banned on April 1 next year. It comes after the Daily Record’s Bin the Vapes campaign to outlaw polluting single-use vapes scored a huge victory when details of the ban were announced last month.
About 360 million disposable vapes are sold per year with 5 million thrown away every week in Britain - equivalent to eight per second. Scott Butler, Executive Director of Material Focus, warned single-use vapes are among “the most environmentally wasteful, damaging and dangerous consumer products ever made”.
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