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Anyone who has had to scrape off chewing gum from the sole of their shoes, or the seat of their trousers, will have sympathy with the job councils face cleaning up the stuff, and which has led a group of 20 authorities to demand that the chewing gum industry help pay for the costly task.
They have also launched a campaign that points out that a piece of gum cost 3p to buy, but 10p to clean up.
The government dismisses the idea of taxing the industry for the problem as “absurd”, and ministers instead set up a chewing gum action group with gum makers like Wrigleys - which is helping to fund three pilot studies to tackle the problem - to focus on a more cooperative approach.
The pilot studies are aimed more at the people that spit gum out, rather than that the manufacturers. When chewing gum loses its flavour, the message is to "bin it" rather than "gob it" ... or stick it behind your ears or under your desk.
A conference to assess the pilot studies is being hosted today by Encams, the charity behind the Keep Britain Tidy campaign.
Meanwhile Wrigleys and others are searching for what the Observer's Tim Adams calls the holy grail of gum manufacturers - biodegradable gum. The company has spent £5m trying to come up with a gum that dissolves on contact with pavements, so far without success.

approach- podejście
assess- oceniać
authority- władza
bin- wyrzucać do śmieci; śmietnik
cooperative- nastawiony na współpracę
dismiss- odrzucać
dissolve- rozpuszczać się
focus on- koncentrować się na
gob- wypluć
holy grail- święty Graal
host- gościć
launch- rozpocząć, spowodować, uruchomić
scrape off- zdrapywać
sole- podeszwa
spit sth out- wypluć
stuff- coś, rzecz
sympathy- współczucie
tackle- rozwiązywać, zmagać się (z)
tax- opodatkować


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