Bury Council have received a grant to purchase specialist cleaning equipment
The sticky issue of unsightly chewing gum lodged on Bury ’s pavements is to be dealt with by the purchase of an ‘eco gum clean-up truck’. A grant from the chewing gum task force, administered by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, will help the council clean up gum.
Bury is one of 54 councils that successfully applied to the task force, now in its third year, for funds to clean gum off pavements and prevent them from being littered again. Established by Defra and run by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, the grant scheme is open to councils who wish to clean up gum and invest in long-term behaviour change to prevent gum from being dropped in the first place.
Coun Alan Quinn, cabinet member for the environment, climate change and operations, said: “Spitting chewing gum onto the pavement is a disgusting habit, and it’s everywhere. Why not put it in a bin? Thanks to this grant, we’ll be using our new truck to clean up some of the mess that blights our borough.”
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