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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
Encams promote Magic Coteas best practice
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:

Public awareness campaigns
Education
Enforcement
Development of a non-sticky or biodegradable gum
Pavement protection - Magic Cote
Impose a tax on chewing gum to cover the clean-up costs
Remove the gum
Encams - Sharing Good Practice (link to video page)

As part of Community Clean's comprehensive services, we can also organise open days, mail shots, PR and advertising in partnership with our clients to help keep the public fully informed. Sharon Parker - Sales & Marketing Manager

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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Case Studies

man using chewing gum removal equiptment

Chewing Gum Removal

The Community Clean business has been established for over 12 years. We specialise in tackling nuisance issues in the community for both the public and private sector. Our services include graffiti removal, chewing gum removal, pavement cleaning, city street cleaning and fly poster removal. Here at Community Clean, we take great pride in restoring our streets and community areas back to their original condition.

We strongly believe that prevention is better than a cure. We offer many preventative solutions to ensure further damage and future cleaning costs are minimised. This can take the form of anti-graffiti coatings, pavement impregnation and street furniture protection. We also work with clients on a regular basis to ensure the cleanliness of locations is maintained. It is via our maintenance programs that we find that areas often stay cleaner for longer and become less prone to vandalism.

Our mission is to provide a high quality service that meets the needs of our customers at competitive prices. Read our case studies to get a more in-depth understanding of the services we offer. The case studies also contain comments from our many satisfied clients.

All of our staff our highly trained specialists but we aim to go even further. We also offer graffiti removal training that enables our clientâ€™s staff to become experts in community cleaning as well.

To find out more please contact us on 0845 685 0133 or email enquiries@communityclean.co.uk.