Sunderland has been awarded thousands of pounds to help remove chewing gum stains from its streets as part of a new national drive to keep towns and cities clean.
The city council is one of more than 40 in line for a share of £7m from the Government's new Chewing Gum Task Force. It has been established by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and it is run by charity Keep Britain Tidy.
As well as funding to removed chewing gum from our pavements, the task force cash is also going towards measures to prevent it being discarded on the streets in the first place. The funding announced is the first to be awarded from a £10m pot of cash provided by big chewing gum firms like Mars Wrigley and Perfetti Van Melle over the next five years.
