Submitted on Tuesday 16th October 2018
Published on Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Signatures: 13
Ban all chewing gum except therapeutic, dental or nicotine chewing gum.
Chewing gum is pointless. Everywhere you look. There are small white blobs on the pavement - in schools, towns, in public transport, under tables and chairs and even in supermarkets making Britian's town's and cities a unsightly place to live.
The annual clean-up bill on the UK’s streets has been estimated at £150m. Some councils spend £200,000 a year cleaning up gum from pavements with high-powered hoses. Cash-strapped council's could use this money better elsewhere like Housing, transport, education, police funding AND THE NHS.
On average it costs £1.00 for an average pack of chewing gum, but it costs £1.50 to remove a single piece of dropped gum. This is a waste of tax payers money!
It also causes a nuisance in schools.
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