Charity Keep Britain Tidy estimates 260 million vapes are thrown away in the UK every year, wasting resources such as lithium. <\/p>\n
It is dangerous to discard them in a general waste bin, as their batteries can cause fires when crushed in bin lorries or recycling centres. <\/p>\n
Under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations, vendors of vapes must offer a service for customers to return vapes for recycling. <\/p>\n
However, Miki finds outlets rarely supply the correct bins. <\/p>\n
“It’s a hassle for them, they don’t want to do it,” he says.<\/p>\n
“They’re going to have to pay for the recycling. They’ve also got to do it through a reputable company.”<\/p>\n
The campaigner says he visited more than 40 shops over the weekend to speak to staff about the recycling regulations.<\/p>\n
“At first they just look at you as though you’re a little bit crazy,” he says. <\/p>\n
“Then you start explaining what they need to do and that they’ve had enough time to do it, then you get different reactions. <\/p>\n
“Some of them say ‘yeah, okay, okay’, other ones have been quite aggressive in their response. <\/p>\n
“They certainly don’t feel as though I’m doing them a favour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charity Keep Britain Tidy estimates 260 million vapes are thrown away in the UK every year, wasting resources…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-267188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114864201733475726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}