{"id":399,"date":"2025-05-27T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T12:19:11","slug":"new-types-of-disposable-vapes-could-bring-significant-environmental-challenges-after-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/new-types-of-disposable-vapes-could-bring-significant-environmental-challenges-after-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"New types of disposable vapes could bring \u2018significant environmental challenges\u2019 after ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Material Focus warns that new types of vapes are set to cause \u2018significant environmental challenges\u2019 after the 1 June disposable vape ban.<\/h4>\n

Ahead of the ban on disposable vapes being sold in the UK<\/a>, Material Focus has warned that new types of vapes that are \u2018designed by producers to avoid the new regulations\u2019 are entering the market.<\/p>\n

The new types of vapes include pod-based and \u2018big puff\u2019 products. Big puff vapes can hold up to 6,000 puffs per product, with single-use vapes averaging 600, Material Focus says.<\/p>\n

8.2 million vapes are thrown away or recycled incorrectly every week, according to new research by Material Focus last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The research also found that 13.5 million vapes are being purchased per week \u2013 a 37% increase on the\u00a09.9 million being brought per week in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vape producers are being infinitely creative with their products in order to avoid the forthcoming disposable vape ban.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The research found that three million of these new types of vapes are now being brought per week, compared to 5.3 million single-use vapes.<\/p>\n

Young people are also more likely to buy this new style of vape \u2013 48% of 16 to 34-year-olds compared to 36% of 35 to 55-year-olds \u2013 the research found.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the disposable vape ban, Material Focus analysed its research on vapes and identified that 1.2 billion disposable style vapes have been bought and three quarters of billion disposable style vapes have been binned or littered.<\/p>\n

Scott Butler, Executive Director of Material Focus, commented: \u201cVape producers are being infinitely creative with their products in order to avoid the forthcoming disposable vape ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of vapers are either unaware of where to recycle their vapes or don\u2019t have a good experience of recycling them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be as easy to recycle a vape as it is to buy one. We want more vapers demanding that where they buy them provide recycling points. It is a legal obligation for all those who sell vapes to provide this after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Material Focus warns that new types of vapes are set to cause \u2018significant environmental challenges\u2019 after the 1 June disposable vape ban. Ahead of the ban on disposable vapes being sold in the UK, Material Focus has warned that new types of vapes that are \u2018designed by producers to avoid the new regulations\u2019 are entering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grid-architecture.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}