Every disposable vape combines plastic, lithium batteries, and toxic chemicals into a throwaway product our waste system was never designed to handle. AB 762 stops this problem at the source by ending Disposable Vape Waste a Problem for Cities Tobacco Reporter Americans throw away 5.7 disposable vape pens every second. That's 500,000 per day or 182 million per year! Fortunately, Shawnee County Solid Waste has a few locations where you can responsibly dispose Vape recycling service launched in South West by DCW The rise in vape waste has been described as "beyond staggering" in a new report revealing that 129kg of disposable devices roughly the weight of a baby elephant were found