London Has a Clever Way to Keep Gum Off the Streets
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Those pink bubbles look cute, but they're also a clever way to get gum off of the sidewalk.
Those pink bubbles look cute, but they're also a clever way to get gum off of the sidewalk.
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Sticky gum on pavement hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy
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Gumdrops are the U.K.'s answer to keeping chewing gum off its streets.
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British designer turns sticky chewing gum waste into recycled products
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Sticky situation: Mexico City's sisyphean battle with chewing gum, Cities
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Londoners Are Using Chalk to Save Their Sidewalks from Discarded Chewing Gum - Bloomberg
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Behind the shelves of candy, a darker side to London's mysterious American candy stores
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Neat Streets installations, by Common Works - Design Week
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Boards to clean up the streets of chewing gum
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Chew on This: What Gum Has Cost Society in Its 5,000-Year History - The Atlantic
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Pavement Picasso: on the trail of London's chewing gum artist, Street art
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Good news: chewing gum removed from British streets