This included 260m disposable vapes

Material Focus said that when consumers bought a cheap item, they saw it as disposable.

"And so you disposed of the disposable vape? Why did you assume that that was the appropriate way to deal with it?"

"It was an innocent mistake! It could have happened to anyone!"

The fact that vape companies seem to make their disposable offerings the only ones with the 'good' experience, while their reusable items are objectively inferior is a crime against environment.

I'd be interested to know the proportion of people who know how electronic waste can be recycled. And how often the average person visits their local recycling center.

I have dozens of items boxed up in need of disposal but I never find the time to research how, let alone making the journey to a recycling center

Mattresses should be recyclable

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Almost half a billion small, cheap electrical everyday items from headphones to handheld fans ended up in landfill in the UK in the past year, according to research.

The not-for-profit organisation Material Focus, which conducted the research, said the scale of the issue was huge and they wanted to encourage more recycling.

This included 260m disposable vapes, 26m cables, 29m LED, solar and decorative lights, 9.8m USB sticks, and 4.8m miniature fans.

Material Focus said that while people were used to the idea of recycling larger electrical items such as fridges, lots of smaller devices were left unused in houses.

In the average UK home, the research found, there were four to five charging cables, two to three mobile phones, and two to three remote controls cluttering up cupboards.

A Material Focus survey of 2,000 people found that every year, the average UK adult buys nine electrical items cheaply and throws away eight.

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