A council is seeking funding for equipment to remove chewing gum from pavements. North Yorkshire Council has applied for £27,500 from Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) for the machinery. The money is given to ...

2002-07-23 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- A thousand varieties of gum are manufactured in the United States. Gum with a minty liquid center that spurts. Gum that won't stick to dentures. Gum that ...

Annapolis wants to make an impression on tourists – but not get stuck on them. The city has bought a $7,500 power washer from to remove chewing gum from city streets and sidewalks. The equipment – ...

… sort out the sticky issue of chewing gum, if you will – but it would seem the new litter removal machine has fallen wide of the mark. That’s according to Bedford & Kempston MP Mohammad Yasin who has ...

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WEST CHESTER-Those black eyesores on the brick sidewalks caused by discarded gum might be a thing of the past. With a device that costs $3,657, the borough will take a two week trial run on a Daimer ...

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Business Improvement District buys $10K machine for the job The Durango Business Improvement District has a new tool to blast away unsightly stains that pockmark downtown sidewalks as a result of gum ...

BUSTIN' LOOSE: I'd worked in the dry cleaning business for 15 years, and began looking for another career when I stopping working for six weeks due to a job injury. A friend told me about this gum ...

The average American buys 300 sticks of chewing gum a year. That's great for the gum industry but icky and sticky for street cleaners. But a new machine in Chapel Hill is successfully bursting the ...