UK companies have come together to revolutionise the industrial cleaning industry with the introduction of a fully mobile chewing gum removal system

1. Chewing Gum be Gone!
£10m a year is spent in London cleaning
up the unsightly mess that is chewing
gum, with 300,000 pieces being removed
from Oxford Street every time that it is
cleaned. The price of removal equates to
three times the price of the gum itself and
it’s not a simple cleaning processeither.
Why is it that members of the public feel
that it is acceptable to spit this flavoured
polymer onto our streets, secretlystick it
under a deskor bung it under a chair?
Thankfully people are beginning to realize
just how disgusting this substance is,
which is reflectedin falling sales. There
was a reported 8% drop in sales in 2014 and a decrease in the
consumptionof some 3,000 tonnes since 2008.
So overtime this jaw churning product may phase out, but in the
meantime we have the problem of how to clean up the disgusting
stuff. It is amazing that something so small is so difficultto
remove.
Although a cleaning expense for local governments chewing gum
has opened up opportunities for manufacturing and service
companies in the UK.
UK companies have come together to revolutionise the industrial
cleaning industry with the introduction of a fully mobile chewing
gum removal system that sees the operatorwearing a “Ghost
Buster” style backpack to deliver super solvents to break down and
wash away gum.
The design and build of the productinvolved many areas of
manufacturing, which stretched to include the services of metal
spinners. The metal spinners designed and manufactured
bespoke parts to be inserted into the stainless steel system that
contains a clever pump that combines pressure,heat and cleaning
solution. The design allows a wad of gum to be removed in just 3

2. seconds allowing some operatives to remove as many pieces as
1000 per hour.
This award winning product is now being promoted globallyand
generating high levels of interest keeping our manufactures,
designers and skilled craftsmenin business and giving a boost to
the UK’s manufacturing industry.
With the decline in both smoking and drinking chewing gum is no
longer required to mask the smellof alcohol in the mornings or
hide the smellof heavy smoking. Once it is realised this horrible
substance is bad for your health the end of the vile habit of
gnawing away at indigestible rubber could be in sight.
In the meantime look out for the new Gum Busters on the street
and be thankful that our industries are trying to eradicate the non-
degradable substance from our environment.