Disposable Vape Ban Leads Britons to Throw Away Reusables Instead Bloomberg 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 6.3m vapes are thrown away each week despite single use ban Belgium will ban sales of disposable e cigarettes in a first for the EU : NPR Disposable E Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes UC Davis They're illegal. So why is it so easy to buy the disposable vapes favored by teens? WAMU