New cheap vapes are flooding the market and driving up the amount of waste that the incoming ban on single-use vapes aims to tackle, campaigners have warned. Concerns are growing that so-called “big ...

Cheap vapes bought from abroad may be banned under Rishi Sunak's e-cigarette clampdown. In efforts to stamp out the UK's child vaping epidemic, the PM has pledged to ban disposable e-cigs completely.

A major waste firm says “cheap” vapes which have been incorrectly discarded are still causing fires despite a ban on single-use vapes. SUEZ, which operates more than 300 waste management sites across ...

In 2025, we have seen 339 fires at our waste sorting centres and refuse trucks right across the UK, all caused by incorrectly ...

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