E-cigarettes, and particularly disposable vapes, generate lots of waste and are bad for the environment, a new report says
July 11, 2023 2:44 PM EDTined up end-to-end, the disposable e-cigarettes sold and trashed annually in the U.S. could stretch across the country and back again, according to aDisposable vapes typically have plastic bodies that are designed to be used until they’re empty and then tossed, as opposed to devices that can be refilled with nicotine e-liquids or pods. The CDC Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,that each month in the U.S.
Once little-used, disposable e-cigarettes accounted for about 53% of e-cigarette unit sales in the U.S. as of March 2023, according to the CDC Foundation. Single-use products like Puff Bar have also unseated once-dominant vaping brands like
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