The RSPCA has received more than 10,000 calls over the past 3 years about animals affected by litter, as the charity warns vapes pose a new litter threat to animals. New statistics from the charity show that 10,483 calls were received about animals impacted by litter over 2020, 2021 and 2022.
With an average of almost 10 reports per day taken by the charity about animals found severely injured, trapped, mutilated, choked or even dead from carelessly discarded litter of all kinds, the RSPCA is urging people to do their bit to protect animals this year and get involved in Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean’s ‘Big Bag Challenge’, starting on Friday, March 17.
The call for people to collect litter during the Great British Spring Clean comes amidst reports from the UK and overseas of vapes being mistaken by animals for food and being ingested and even dying from them. In the UK, 167.5 million single-use vapes are used every year.
