Submitted on Thursday 25th May 2023
Rejected on Friday 2nd June 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban the sale of single-use disposable vapes.
Ban the import and sale of single-use disposable vapes.
Interim:
Retailers, manufacturers and distributors comply with Extended Producer Responsibility, and improve disposal information.
Strengthen trading standards aligning with tobacco; removing multi-buy deals and selling behind screens.
Disposable vapes surged the market, significantly marketing young people, selling over 1 million/week, despite having a scarce lithium-ion battery (Material Focus, 2022).
Most go to general waste. When not recycled (WEEE waste), they risk fires during collection and processing.
Containing mixed materials and hazardous chemicals, they require manual dismantlement; processing 1M+/week is unfeasible.
A ban aligns to a circular economy, net zero, and allows reusable devices for smoking cessation.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638536
We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:
Introduce new restrictions on vape packaging, flavours and display: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631999
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