Walk down any street in the UK, and there's a good chance you'll spot a colourful plastic tube lying on the ground.
It'll almost certainly be a disposable vape - a single-use alternative to smoking that's booming in popularity, growing 600% since November 2021.
Any reduction in the number of people smoking tobacco is welcome news, but the damage disposable vapes are doing to the environment isn't widely understood.
We've taken a look at the environmental impact of disposable vapes, whether you can recycle them, what their carbon footprint is, and whether they should be banned.
