Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic : TreeHugger

This could be a gum game-changer...

Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace Plastic : TreeHugger: "Designer Anna Bullus read the statistics of the gum problem in London -- that the government spends 150 million [pounds] 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. But she's starting out by making chewed gum into discrete but identifiable waste bins for used gum."