Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers

Single-use disposable vapes discarded on a beach. Volunteers on the beach cleans log every piece of litter they find. Photograph: Richard Newton/Alamy

Volunteer beach cleaners are finding more vapes than ever before as plastic pollution chokes Britain’s coastline.

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) on Wednesday launches its annual beach clean, which last year involved more than 15,000 volunteers who completed more than 1,200 litter surveys.