6.3m vapes are thrown away each week despite single use ban Disposable vapes are officially banned in the UK! Up until now, five million disposable vapes have been thrown away every single week, with many of them ending up as litter in 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 How does the disposable vape ban work, and how harmful is vaping?