Time to Ditch Disposables for Reusable Vapes We throw away five million disposable vapes every year in the UK. This amounts to eight vapes being discarded every second. Councillor Clyde Loakes, chair of the North London Waste Assembly, is urging Individual enraged by harmful object littering streets: 'I find them thrown everywhere' Disposable Vapes Environmental Impact: A Growing Concern and the Road to Regulation Ecigator