We throw away five million disposable vapes every year in the UK. This amounts to eight vapes being discarded every second. Councillor Clyde Loakes, chair of the North London Waste Assembly, is urging Number of disposable vapes thrown away a week quadruples to 5 million Vape Business A recent study by the recycling campaign group Material Focus reveals that more than 6.3 million vapes and pods are still discarded weekly across the UK, even after the government banned single use Single use vapes sparking surge in fires at UK waste plants Vaping The Guardian