Government urged to crack down on cheap vapes circumventing single-use ban

Mark Oates, founder of We Vape, said: “The lesson here is that you can’t regulate your way around human behaviour. I’ve long argued for a vape deposit return scheme. If people pay a small deposit and get it back when they return their device, recycling rates will rise and far fewer lithium batteries will end up in household waste. The disposable vape ban targeted a product rather than the behaviour, and the market has adapted exactly as many of us predicted.”