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Vapes are thrown away every week. now the lga wants the government to ban all single—use vapes as soon as next year. so, what is the problem? it�*s not just that they litter our high streets. each one of these contains a tiny lithium ion battery wrapped in plastic and that is difficult to recycle. if it gets crushed in a bin lorry or waste disposal centre, it can catch fire. they are technically recyclable but there is a real difference between what is technically recyclable and what happens in practice. and we know that what happens in practice in the uk is less than 1% of these things ar...

Cheap to buy, simple to use and littering our public spaces. more than 1.3 million disposable vapes are thrown away every week. now the lga wants the government to ban all single—use vapes as soon as next year. so, what is the problem? it's not just that they litter our high streets. each one of these contains a tiny lithium ion battery wrapped in plastic and that is difficult to recycle. if it gets crushed in a bin lorry or waste disposal centre, it can catch fire. they are technically recyclable but there is a real difference between what is technically recyclable and what happens in pract...

In plastic and that is difficult to recycle. if it gets crushed in a bin lorry or waste disposal centre, it can catch fire. they are technically recyclable but there is a real difference between what is technically recyclable and what happens in practice. and we know that what happens in practice in the uk is less than i% of these things are actually being recycled. it's not very economical to recycle them, they are always going to be really difficult and as a result, most of them are being thrown away or even worse, they're being littered. but that's only half the story. garish colours and su...

Glasgow City Council spent nearly half a million pounds in less than a year on minibuses to follow bin lorries with workers inside, an FOI request showed.