Call for UK ban on single-use vapes as more than 5m discarded each week
by Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#6EJDB)
Exclusive: Fourfold increase on 2022 sees enough vapes discarded to create 5,000 electric car batteries
Five million single-use vapes are being thrown away in the UK every week, a fourfold increase on 2022, research has found.
This amounts to eight vapes a second being discarded, with the lithium in the products enough to create 5,000 electric car batteries a year.
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