Eamonn Holmes has hit out at “dirty beasts” in a rant about the level of litter in Britain.
It came as part of a discussion about vapes, amid suggestions a Labour government could make the “gateway drug” prescription-only.
Speaking on GB News, journalist Andy Jones fumed at the plague of disposable vapes being littered, saying young people are predominantly to blame.
“For a generation that cares so much about the planet”, he sarcastically remarked.
Eamonn Holmes has hit out at those who litter
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Picking up on the point was Eamonn Holmes, who admitted that seeing such a high level of litter “really annoys” him.
He then detailed seeing rubbish scattered along the side of a road while travelling with co-presenter, Isabel Webster.
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“Isabel had to sit in a car with me for three-and-a-half-hours yesterday”, he said.
“I said, ‘look out your window now’, who dumps litter out of their windows? It really annoys me.
“Sandwiches, cartons, milk bottles, whatever. We just have to accept that people are very dirty.
“They’re dirty beasts. There’s a lot of dirtiness out there.”
Wes Streeting may tackle disposable vapes should Labour gain power
GB NEWSLabour MP Wes Streeting said the party was considering the move on vapes as he hit out at “Big Tobacco” and the vaping industry of “crying crocodile tears” about the rise of vaping among children.
He told The Telegraph about meeting with Australian health minister Mark Butler, who he discussed the country’s plan to ban the import of disposable e-cigarettes with.
According to Greenpeace, the number of disposable vapes getting binned each year could fill 22 football pitches.
They claim nearly five billion vapes are disposed of each week, accounting for roughly eight a second.
As they are made from a mixture of materials, including plastic, copper and a lithium battery, they are a difficult item to recycle.
Streeting was more focused on vaping’s health effects, claiming the industry has been “irresponsible” with its promotion of the product.
“I don’t want to hear any more crocodile tears from vaping industry leaders about the number of children who have taken up vaping, all the pearl clutching that’s going on there”, he said.
“I think this has been a deliberate strategy to increase consumer demand and the fact that you’ve got ‘Big Tobacco’ now weighing in behind vaping tells me that what they want is to addict people to nicotine through a new product.”