"Research and Market" recently pointed out that about 44.7 million tons of garbage produced by electronic cigarettes and heating cigarettes each year, including raw materials worth reaching $ 65 billion, such as gold, silver and platinum. They proposed the recycling plan for electronic cigarettes and heating cigarette garbage.

The garbage produced by electronic cigarettes contain lithium ion batteries, heating elements and circuit boards, which may contain plastic and heavy metals. Although some countries have general legislation that manages electronic waste, there are few relevant regulations specifically for how to deal with electronic cigarettes and heating cigarette garbage.