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.
The council is using some of the £27,500 grant to buy an ‘eco gum truck’ to remove the unsightly waste. The remainder is being spent on carrying out deep cleans of several town centre areas, starting last week with Tottington and Whitefield, and moving on to Prestwich and Bury this month.
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.
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