It's a stick-up: gum makers told to pay for the mess

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

CHEWING-GUM manufacturers will have to help pay for cleaning up the mess left by their product under a new agreement being negotiated with the Government.

The Deputy Prime Minister's office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have told manufacturers that they must sponsor clean-up teams and buy specialist machinery for local authorities.

An estimated 20 million people chew their way through 935 million packs of gum a year and councils spend about pounds 150 million a year removing it from streets and buildings, according to Encams, the environmental campaigns charity ...

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