Chewing gum pollution is everywhere.

Thank you, Joe Brucker, for your following thoughts on chewing gum pollution. Joe wrote:

"With the average person chewing 300 pieces of gum per year it's hard not to ask yourself, "Where does all this chewed gum go when the consumer has savored the last bit of flavor from their stick of gum?"

Chewing gum pollution. Unwanted gum full of germs and bacteria
ends up on the streets.
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The answer is simple. The remains of chewed gum can be found on the streets, on airplane leather seats, park benches, and sticking to the bottom of our shoes on a hot summer day. Chewed pieces of gum are often placed inbetween library books, stuck to the backside of our most expensive jeans, and just about anywhere else an irresponsible gum chewer decides to spit out their finished piece of gum.

Unfortunately, we blindly trample over thousands of chewed pieces of gum that decorate the sidewalks and streets of our neighborhoods without any concern for what it is doing to the landscape of our planet. It would be hard to find a city where you could not play connect the dots with discarded chewing gum glued to the sidewalk.

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People from all over the globe have come together to bring gum pollution awareness to their neighborhoods and cities but you do not need an entire city to start making a difference. Having a product like WraperZ in your back pocket to correctly discard your old chewing gum, and keep it off the bottom of our shoes, is something all avid gum chewers can do to help keep gum off our streets."

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Chewing gum pollution in pictures. 

1. Fun day at a festival spoiled by a shirt ruined by a spat out bubble gum. 

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2. It's so easy to prevent chewing gum pollution. Change your attitude, change your behavior. Wrap your gum. BE RESPONSIBLE. 

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3. Lazy people spit gum out everywhere. Responsible people will alway dispose of it in a way to protect the environment. Become the RESPONSIBLE one and WRAP your gum!

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4. It is a costly affair to clean our sidewalks from chewing gum pollution. Wrapping and tossing your gum away doesn't cost a dime. Hiring companies to clean up our cities and public areas can cost millions of dollars annually!

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4. It's that simple! Follow these three steps. 

CHEW IT - WRAP IT - TOSS IT

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Have you ever seen another person tossing their food wrapper out of their car window? Have you seen another person unwrapping chewing gum and tossing the wrapping paper on the street? Have you ever tossed anything out on the street?

I've been thinking a lot about my own littering behavior and wondering why I would feel comfortable tossing a piece of trash out irresponsibly. My immediate answer is the lack of trash receptacles. My second answer is.... LAZINESS. Even I have to admit, that I have littered in the past simply because I was allowed to. Simply because there wasn't anybody around me who would hold me accountable. There. I said it. I did it, because I could get away with it.

Today, as I am consciously trying to promote cleaner environment by helping raise awareness about chewing gum pollution, I am so much more aware of how much people litter. I go for a run in my neighborhood (about 3 miles) and I notice chewing gum blobs everywhere! Just yesterday, I must have counted at least 23 chewing gum globs that my fellow neighbors spat out.

Now, think about all the other litter that is around us polluting our environment, including the water we drink and the air we breathe. It's not a pretty thought, is it? Littering is the result of individual behavior. Behavior is learned by observations or it is ingrained in us by the way our parents raised us. The good thing is though, that no matter how bad or good our behavior is, it can be changed if we make a conscious decision, a proactive one, to do so.

Here is what we can all do to make that change - a positive change that would preserve and protect the earth's and its precious resources. LET'S MAKE LITTERING OUR RESPONSIBILITY! Let's start thinking about the consequences of our actions!

When it comes to chewing gum litter, don't  just spit your used gum out. Stop yourself and think about your next step. Do I spit it out? Do I make a little effort and wrap it and toss it away  in a trash receptacle? The choice is yours. Just remember, tossing gum away responsibly is free, it doesn't cost you a dime. It will keep our environment clean and it will protect small animals from digesting it.

Do the right thing! MAKE LITTERING YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

Many sidewalks in your cities and towns look like poke dots. Unfortunately that's not a creative design. That's all chewing gum pollution.

Chewing gum in a dishwasher

Why don't they allow chewing gum at schools? Have you ever given it some thought? The answer is really simple - chewing gum pollution.

What do you do when you end up with a piece of gum in your dishwasher? Well, based on your damage, you may call a professional. If the damage doesn't seem too serious, save your $$$ and try one of the solutions offered in an article called "Do It Yourself". 

Here is an excerpt:

"Method 1 - Ice the Gum

Step 1: Apply Ice to the Gum Spots

Put pieces of ice in a small sealable plastic bag and hold them for several seconds against each gum spot to harden it. With a plastic spatula or a plastic scrubber that is safe for non-stick cookware, scrape away at the hardened gum to remove as much as possible.

Step 2: Wipe Down the Dryer Drum with Vinegar and Water

Make a 50 percent solution of vinegar and water in a 1-quart bottle and apply this to a cloth. Wipe over the gum spots to lift off more residue."

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Lots of times, it's our own laziness and lack of awareness that make our lives more difficult. When our lives become more difficult, we have tendencies to overlook simple solutions, the proactive ones. We focus on searching for difficult and costly solutions instead - the reactive ones.

Now, here is the kicker! When it comes to chewing gum pollution, we have a proactive solution called WraperZ. WraperZ offers a simple concept of wrapping your gum into a piece of paper. Kind of a no-brainer, right?

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Help our cause, spread the awareness and let's all promote a clean environment free of chewing gum pollution.

18.7 Billion Pieces of Chewing Gum End up on Streets

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As one of the best performers in the candy industry, chewing gum continues to be a favorite among American consumers. Although the history of chewing gum is somewhat cloudy, evidence shows that ancient Greeks chewed on a substance made from the resin of the Mastic tree. Native Americans were also known to have chewed on a substance made from the resin of Spruce trees. This practice continued until the early 19th century and is known as one of the first examples of modern chewing gum. Americans began manufacturing gum in the mid 1800's by adding paraffin wax to make the gum softer and last longer. During the late 1800's the industry leaders that we know today, William Wrigley Jr.(Wrigley), Henry Fleer (Chiclets) and Franklin Channing (Dentyne gum),entered the business. Today millions of people enjoy chewing gum and every year over $4 billion of chewing gum products are sold worldwide.

Chewing gum has been popular in America since it's creation in the mid 1800's and has been marked by periods of strong growth and decline throughout the 20th century. The overall success of the industry can be attributed to low manufacturing costs and aggressive marketing campaigns. One of the trends that the gum companies were able to take advantage of was America's obesity fears associated with traditional candy items. With Americans becoming more health conscious the first sugar-free chewing gum was created in the late 1940s. Gum manufactures were easily able to market gum as being good for you. According to Global Business Insights, sugar-free and functional gum products will experience compound annual growth rates 9.5 and 5.5 percent in the U.S until 2010. In comparison, sugar confectionery such as lollipops and sweets will grow at 1.5 percent over the same time period in the U.S.

Another trend gum manufactures were able to use to their advantage was using chewing gum as an alternative to smoking. In the early 1990s smoking was being outlawed in more public places allowing gum manufactures to position their products as substitutes for smoking cigarettes. Taking this position resulted in a 1.3 percent average annual rise is gum sales from 1986 to 1992.

The idea behind the development of the WraperZ product is to captivate chewing gum lovers who have recognized the chewing gum littering issue and therefore have a need for this product.With some 374 billion pieces of chewing gum being sold worldwide annually  chewing gum clean up cost are sky rocking! Even if 95 percent of all gum chewers disposed of their gum properly, that still leaves 18.7 billion pieces of improperly discarded gum to be found on sidewalks, park benches, underneath chairs and tables, and even on clothes. In London, England, it is estimated that 65 percent of the streets have chewing gum on them. The removal cost is estimated to be a whooping $222 million a year.

Many companies worldwide have focused on finding easier, more cost effective ways of helping control gum pollution. Some companies have focused on the gum itself, working to create a removable and biodegradable gum. Some progress has been made, but it is still far from being solved.

Until then, the WraperZ product offers an immediate, environmentally friendly solution to gum pollution prevention. Not only that it will prompt chewing gum lovers to chew their gum, wrap it and then dispose of it properly, but it is also an innovative advertising medium, that fits in every pocket, every car, every window display. 

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