Submitted on Monday 28th November 2022
Rejected on Wednesday 21st December 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban the manufacture and sale of disposable vapes
Allowing the manufacture and sale of disposable vapes is undermining national targets to reduce the amount of chemicals and plastics entering the environment. Government must work urgently with manufacturers and retailers to ban the manufacture and sale of disposable vapes to protect the environment
Disposable vapes contain lithium batteries, metal wiring and plastic parts.
Carelessly discarded vapes now litter the UK and pose a choking hazard to wildlife. The batteries pose a fire hazard and leach toxic chemicals into the environment.
Research suggests that people in the UK are throwing away approximately two disposable vapes every second, resulting in 10 tonnes of lithium being sent to landfill every year.
Lithium is a precious metal that is used in electric cars and solar panels.
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