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 ...

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 ...

Ever wonder what all those unsightly, amorphous black blobs are on downtown sidewalks? Tar? Sometimes. Dirt? Sort of. Mostly, though, it’s chewed- up, spit-out wads of gum. Over time, they get flat ...

Heavy duty equipment will be bought to clean the street of Hamilton and remove unsightly chewing gum. Mayor Sutherland Madeiros said the new equipment would be arriving shortly as he kicked off the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Shan Cuddis’s letter on Monday reminded me of the £120,000 chewing gum removal machine that was purchased a number of years ago by Mary Mears’ council. Has anyone ever actually seen this machine in ...