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Anna Bullus Recycles Chewing Gum Into Rubber That Could Replace Plastic

First Posted: 08/23/10 05:03 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:25 PM ET

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Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London -- that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street alone each day -- and she decided there must be a better way to deal with the problem. So, she headed to the laboratory and came up with a way to transform chewed gum into a useful rubber that can be made into anything from toys to boots.

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Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London -- that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street al...
Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London -- that the government spends £150 million annually to clean up gum, over 30,000 pieces of which end up stuck to Oxford street al...
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jws2346
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01:08 PM on 08/24/2010
Whoa' what'll they think of next" ABC gum for plastic?
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Totto
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11:52 AM on 08/24/2010
Ford gum? I chewed it when I was a kid in Chicago.
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Naina Vaish
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01:05 AM on 08/24/2010
Too much of a task.. recycle etc... to save millions and side walks ban the chewing gums!!!
http://www.greennbrown.com
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01:04 AM on 08/24/2010
Scientist will announce tomorrow that they were able to create Assphalt from Limbaugh Droppings able to withstand intense heat and road salt.
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greylox
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08:03 PM on 08/23/2010
**Where they gonna get the gum? Don't you swallow it?
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07:03 PM on 08/23/2010
It seems like HuffPo will run just about any story with a green label
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01:05 AM on 08/24/2010
Especially in the tab labeled
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go Figure !
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TurningPoint Sustainabil
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07:02 PM on 08/23/2010
Chewing gum into rubber could replace plastic...?

ROFLMAO

HOW MANY PEOPLE CHEW GUM..., in this World...???
I have no idea and don't really care to look it up...,
But, if someone with TOO much time on their hands could do the math that would be nice....

I doubt it would make much of a difference.
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StopThePlanet
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06:54 PM on 08/23/2010
There are a lot of elementary school teachers who will be very excited about this.
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Nate Thurmond
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05:56 PM on 08/23/2010
"During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. "

T. Edision

ain't life amazing?
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10:45 AM on 08/24/2010
Ironically, the fact that there is currently a HuffPo article about the 9 most overrated people might prove interesting with respect to T. E.
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