Member

That is why this amendment explicitly links youth vaping with its waste impacts. The two problems have a shared cause: the proliferation of cheap throwaway vapes. We should be moving towards products that are designed to be reused and recycled. There is not enough producer responsibility for vapes. The Government have the Circular Economy Taskforce, and I welcome that, but it has barely touched on this issue. It is a tangent and has not been a priority; there is not a clear direction of travel. The task force does not have the necessary level of expertise and specialism, and I see no real desire on the part the Government to move beyond saying that they have banned disposable vapes. As I say, these things are still single-use and are still available cheaply.