25-year old climate campaigner Laura Young is doing her bit for the environment one vape at a time ♻️
Festivals, nightclub smoking areas, and parks – disposable vapes seem to be everywhere.
Based in Dundee, Scotland, the PhD student collects discarded disposable vapes while walking her dog at the rate of ‘one per minute’. ‘We are using electronic devices that are designed to be thrown away. Every time I am out, I will see them on the ground, pick them up and get rid of them.supports HTML5 video‘On Sunday, it was the first time I ever went specifically looking because I wanted to actually map and record how many I see. And I found one every minute.Disposable vapes are a small, non-rechargeable devices that are pre-charged and already filled with e-liquid.
Laura has been working with a number of environmental groups to get the government to ban the devices Curious about what these products are and their impact, she looked into research commissioned by Material Focus in 2022. Laura said: ‘Actually, these are not supposed to be thrown into the bin. They are Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment resources, and are supposed to be recycled.‘But you also cannot recycle them at home. It is not something that is collected curbside. It needs to be specially recycled at a recycling centre.
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