Congratulations to Scotland’s Ban Disposable Vapes Campaigners

That the Parliament commends environmental scientist and campaigner, Laura Young, ASH Scotland, the Marine Conservation Society and its Youth Ocean Network members and Keep Scotland Beautiful for raising what it sees as vital public awareness through the #BanDisposableVapes campaign, which was started in 2022 and highlights that single-use vapes are extremely difficult and costly to recycle and present the loss of precious finite materials such as lithium used in batteries; considers that the supply and sale of the products undermines the principles of a circular economy, causes harm to the environment and damages young people’s health; understands that Laura Young influenced 29 of Scotland’s 32 local authorities to join the call for Scotland to ban recreational disposable vaping products; further understands that there was an exponential increase in children’s use of e-cigarettes, which became the fastest growing litter item in streets, parks and beaches, thereby, it believes, increasing the risks of harmful chemicals and microplastics leaking into the environment and marine life, and wishes the campaigners well as they celebrate the Environmental Protection (Single-Use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024, which came into force on 1 June 2025, to address what it considers are the environmental and public health challenges posed by disposable vapes.