Ecology is today a very important subject in our lifestyle, in the context of sustainability.
Pollution has become a scourge and we must find solutions to counter it, but there is one type that doesn't have real and durable solution: the one caused by chewing gum. Chewing gum is present on many streets, on pavements, that is very annoying and damages the beauty of many places.
Our approach consists of learning how we can efficiently fight against chewing-gum pollution. We will see in the first part the effects of this pollution. Then, we will look for solutions to eliminate the gum pollution with examples of French and English cities which have worked on it. The problem of objectivity regarding cleanliness is also tackled: a street can be considered as dirty by certain people, but clean for others. And chewing gum, in comparison with other urban pollutions, such as dog "droppings", rubbish and cigarette butts, do not disturb the pedestrian traffic.
[...] However, no effective response was been found to deal with the scourge of thousands of discarded chewing gum on thrown on the floor before the mayor, Jean-Louis Fousseret visited the United Kingdom city linked with Besançon: Huddersfield Besançon's approach to strike the problem: In continuation of a strong focus based on awareness, accountability and civic reminder, the City of Besançon just equipped 27 bins of the Main Street bins bearing a block of 15 posters on which Besançon's citizens can stick their chewing gum. [...]
[...] In Nantes, the attraction of a novelty can incite the citizens to throw their chewing gum in the bins rather than on the floor. But we cannot know the effect for the long term. Only the communication could develop the using of bins. We are asking the question to do the communication ourselves with the “executive students” or buy someone else. Peripheral information on the anti-chewing-gum project To build this project, we passed through several steps: The idea, the research and the gathering of information on similar projects, the contact of cities and places where those projects were led and at least the contact with Nantes, the presentation of the project and the action during the "Semaine Evènement ISEG". [...]
[...] The government creates the CGAG (Chewing Gum Action Group) which have a goal to reduce the chewing gum problem and to run public awareness campaigns about chewing gum litter. In 2006 the results for the fifteen authorities who took part in the awareness campaigns was already very good. Indeed the average outcome was a reduction of 38% in gum accumulated. Thirteen authorities saw reduction between and 72% with just one authority reporting an increase. In local authorities took part in the campaigns. [...]
[...] However, in the long term, we can presume that this phenomenon will diminish, once the smokers get used to the new conditions in public areas Solutions that already exists 2.1 - Presentation of Gummy Bins Since several years, the chewing gum is a very big problem during the summer when it's really hot. Who has never walked on a chewing gum? To remedy this problem two companies Gummy Bins (England) and Envyrobubble (Canada) make products (bins) to recycle gum and try to fight the problem of chewing gum since two years. [...]
[...] In Oxford Street in London, about chewing gums can be seen on the floor, and the matter of cleaning is appreciably the same: the cost is about £150,000 ( euros) a year[2] - A really slow disrepair On an average, we consider that chewing gum disrepair lasts 5 years. If we compare it with other pollutants such as cigarettes butts or cardboard packing, it does take a lot of time (from 1 to 5 months for cardboard, and one year for butts)[3] - An expensive and rough cleaning According to the different floor coverings (bitumen, smooth paving stones, pavements, granite, metal plates and so the difficulty changes whether the surface is porous or not. [...]
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