Shop sellers in Nottingham say there is a "high demand" for disposable vapes and e-cigarettes - which have soared in popularity in the past couple of years. Only last year, hundreds of illegal vapes were seized during an operation in Nottingham.
Trading standards officers in the city bagged up the vast collection of vaping products from three separate shops. Officers were joined by the Arboretum police team - conducting an operation as part of the Business Crime Week of Action back in October last year. They seized 384 disposable vapes as part of their operation.
So, Nottinghamshire Live headed to the city centre to see how this issue was contributing to litter. Armed with rubber gloves and a plastic bag, we took a stroll around the city centre one Thursday afternoon, just to see how many disposable vapes we could find on the streets. We decided to look for any 'vape paraphernalia', which included boxes, vapes, the metal casing and the lithium batteries.
