Project tackles chewing gum litter

A TOTAL of €6 million is to be spent educating people about the scourge of chewing gum litter but the Government has stopped short of imposing a clean-up tax on its manufacturers.

As part of the three-year anti-gum litter campaign Irish third-level institutions have been given the chance to compete for a e1m research grant to invent a chewing gum that keeps its taste but loses its stickiness.

Yesterday, three pilot projects were launched in Bray, Dublin and Cork by the newly established Gum Litter Task Force.