Over 1.3 million disposable vapes a week are ending up in landfill or incineration ITV News 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 Man manages to power his entire house using 500 disposable vapes Unsafe disposal of millions of vapes a week causing environmental damage and rise in lithium ion battery fires British Safety Council