Chewing Gum Removal & Protection
The Facts - Did you know?
- There are an estimated 20 million chewers in the UK
- Over 935 million packs of chewing gum are sold each year
- It costs 3p per stick to buy and 10p to prise off the streets
- The average cost to clean up gum from a town centre is £20k
- The chewing gum market is currently valued at £322 million
- An Encams Local Environmental Quality Survey of England 2003, showed that the issue of people dropping gum affects 67% of all areas
- Chewing gum is now classed as litter
What can be done to tackle the problem?
There are a number of approaches to dealing with chewing gum litter including:
How do we remove the gum?
Having recognised that this is a world-wide problem an extensive market research operation was set up to examine the various methods that have been tried to solve the problem.
After identifying the flaws in other processes we had to adopt a system that gave better results. The Mirage System is:
- Environmentally friendly, using a biodegradable, vegetable based solution
- Gentle on surfaces, low pressure/high temperature steam system
- Quiet operation
- Water efficient, using only 40 litres of water per day
- Quick operation, cleaning 500-800sqm of pavement per day
- Allows pedestrian flow
- Ergonomically accepted
An average jet wash system being used for 5 hours a day to remove gum uses 22,500 litres of water per week, the Mirage System uses 200 litres per week; a massive saving of 22,300 litres in just one week!
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