Ninety-nine percent of the main shopping streets of England and Wales are now spattered with chewing gum, according to the countries' Local Government Association (LGA), representing more than 370 local authorities. In a rallying call to chewing gum manufacturers, the LGA says they must do more to help with the growing multi-million pound sterling cost to local communities of removing discarded gum. That cost, it adds, now stands at ￡60mn annually, enough to cover the expenditure required to fill in more than a million potholes.
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