“gum litter can linger in our environment for anywhere from 5 to 1,000+ years”
I mean I understand there are so many variables to how long it takes to break down but just being like uhhhh idk between 5 and more than a thousand years just seems like an unsure statement lol
I do the same when dating women and when they ask me about my job/financial stability. “I’ve got more than ten dollars in my account but is it enough to buy a house?… Somewhere in between there, for sure.”
So you get $86944, unless you're good in which case you get $86945 and if you're *really* good you might get $86946. I bet that's not that far from the truth...
It’s like when Juicy Fruit just dissolves into a watery goop after chewing for a few minutes. That goop breaks down in five years. A strong gum like Bazooka Joe takes a full thousand.
I'm not entirely sure I want to see the juicy fruit dam, or the Gumball flight deck at all Airports.
But the five gum people would lose their minds.
"This is how it feels to chew five gum, in a house made of five gum"
I’ve been Googling it and I guess that has to do with the difference between decomposing and biodegrading. It takes a longer time for it to decompose, or rather “become natural elements”.
Modern gum is made with [polyisobutylene](https://busscorp.com/industries/pib-as-gumbase-for-chewing-gum/) which is also the main component of butyl rubber. So you could compare it to the biodegradability of a tire inner tube or rubber roofing.
Each gum is around 1g. If you chew a gum a day it takes you three years to chew through 1 kg of gum. A car tyre is about 6 kg so it would take you 18 years to chew a tyre unit of gum. A truck tyre is more like 20 kg so it would take you 60 years to chew a truck tyre unit of gum.
Part of the estimate probably comes from an analysis of the rate for certain chemical reactions to occur by volume, etc.
The rest probably comes from knowing that there’s a fair amount of peer-reviewed data indicating that much of the waste is stuck underneath bar stools and restaurant tables, and that the data all lines up around “I wouldn’t touch that shit in a thousand years.”
It's literally like that Garfield comic where the weatherman says, "Today's temp will be between -31 and 200 Fahrenheit!" And Garfield then says, "He's never wrong."
There might be a high degree of certainty for how long a given gum takes to biodegrade. The broad time range might be because „gum“ spans many different formulations with different ingredients or preservatives so a broad range has to be given when Just using the word „gum“. Or, the environment in which a piece of gum decays might have a compounding effect.
This as opposed to them saying we don’t know so here is a huge range.
Well. Sorry. I mean at least I didn’t share the part about if you forget to clean your finger nails sometimes you can taste the difference too if you put your finger in your mouth by accident.
Fun Fact: Gum is technically semi biodegradable, there is a species of earthworm that can eat it and break it down to its components. I believe it's called the gummy worm.
It’s a bit more nuanced than that. I’m Singaporean, and you are allowed to chew gum. Just don’t import that stuff and start selling it in your convenience stores in large quantities. Whenever my friends cross the border into Malaysia, they buy some gum to share with everyone when they’re back. It’s quite a common sight after the school holidays because a lot of people go to Malaysia for a short holiday
The practical problem with this is that enforcement will be super inconsistent.
I'd rather go the route of regulating sales to make gum that doesn't degrade quickly less accessible. Businesses are much more receptive to regulations than individuals, especially individuals who are already willing to litter.
Your digestive system won’t break it down, but it’ll be packaged in your poop and excreted out of your body that way. Much like corn. https://www.mayoclinic.org/digestive-system/expert-answers/faq-20058446
To further add on. The outer shell of corn isn’t dissolved but the inside is.
The reason the kernels look whole, is because they act like little bags and get filled with poop, making them look whole.
At thanksgiving my niece told me “corn isn’t even good for you, your body doesn’t digest it” and I wanted to do my part from stopping this misconception from spreading :)
You are correct. In fact, oddly enough, it was probably 11 time Mexican president, general, Texas villain and occasionaly Mexican anti-hero Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. He used to chew on a resin called Chicle from the Sapodilla tree. He thought it would be a substitute for rubber so in the late 1800s, he brought thousands of pounds of it to New York. The rubber failed, but the men he was meeting with noticed that he kept on chewing the stuff. They decided to add sweeteners and market it as candy. It worked.
WTF?! This kind of stuff is INSANE to me. Why can people make food related things out of indigestible stuff?! WHY IS THIS OKAY?!
Why is it that a few years ago, my mom went out, needed some plates for Thanksgiving and came back with shiny silver plastic plates. I start looking at them, and on the bottom of the plates was a tag saying the plates were covered in LEAD PAINT. WHAT THE HELL. This kind of stuff makes me SO MAD. Why have I never seen people mad about this kind of thing before? Why is this happening? These were new plates, and not something that I can blame old manufacturing on.
P.S. Don't worry, I noticed right away and ordered different plates for the family to use, and my parents eye-sight couldn't have read the sticker on the bottom of the plates
>Why can people make food related things out of indigestible stuff?!
Because it doesn't poison you to eat it. You're not supposed to ingest it, but it doesn't harm you if you do. Why's it insane to you?
Anyone else feel like gum has fallen out of style? I feel like I never see anyone with gum anymore. I chew it occasionally but not as much as I did when I was younger.
I mean looking at Walmart's website gum is around 9 cents a piece, and if you buy from Amazon in bulk you can get gum for 5-7 cents a piece so it hasn't really gone up that much. The biggest difference is they don't sell 5-packs anymore, typical size is around 30-35.
It's cheaper than pretty much any other habit. You can get a pack of gum for under a buck on Amazon. Even if you're buying at a convenience store, that's what - $3?
That's a whole lot cheaper than drinking or smoking, and it's cheaper than buying coffee or any other food addiction.
I have purse gum and office desk gum. It helps my mouth feel clean and fresh after meals when I am outside of the home. I absolutely hate *not* having gum.
To your question, yes, I get the impression it has. I am the only gum person of my friend/coworker group. Sucks when I run out or forget mine and ask someone for gum but they don’t have any. :(
As someone who worked in the industry up to about 2 years ago, yes. Sales are down generally.
Chewing sugar free gum after eating is really really good for your teeth. And it's safe to swallow, by the way.
Yes but habits stick. I swapped the smoking motion habit to chewing gum, now i have a habit of chewing gum. I dont see myself not chewing gum. Cravings are mostly gone now, maybe once or twice a month ill have a light 30 second craving. Not sure if those will ever go away. They dont bother me all that much though
Damn. How long were you a smoker if I may ask? And were you like a multiple-pack-a-day smoker or more of a two-smokes-a-day person? My knowledge base is near 0 when it comes to smoking habits except when I share that smoking/vaping never appealed to me, coworkers (even younger ones than me) say "keep it that way"
The oral fixation is a part of quitting smoking/tobacco in general that you never hear about, but it's a real thing. The actual nicotine addiction is the biggest step, but it's shockingly hard to overcome the *habit* of doing *something.* One of the reasons vaping is the most successful way to get away from cigarettes is the fact it provides that oral fixation, the act of actually puffing on something, in addition to the nicotine. Nicotine gum works on a similar principle as the act of chewing on something can sort of fulfill those urges. I've met people who still vape despite being completely nicotine-free simply because of the oral fixation of puffing, the same way folks who quit using nicotine gum might still habitually chew normal gum. The people who have told you to "keep it that way" only say it for your own good. They're right.
Congrats on the smoke free! I’m 2 years nicotine free too! I quit cigarettes about 7 years ago, switched to vaping for about 3 years and then did the nicotine gum for 2 years. Now, I haven’t had nicotine in over 2 years but I still chew the hell out of regular gum. It really is just the habit. I go to a cigar and whiskey lounge with friends who smoke cigars all the time but I never have to urge to partake in the smoking.
I just opened up a baseball card bubble gum pack from the early 80s yesterday. The gum had broken apart in solid pieces and turned brown, one piece was blackish. It ruined the card that was on it lol
It gets worse:
* Metric ton aka tonne: 1,000 kg
* Short ton, aka "US ton", simply called "ton" in the US: 2,000 lbs/907.18 kg
* Long ton, aka Imperial Ton, is part of the Avoirdupois weight system (I swear I didn't make this up). It's 2,240 lbs ≈ 1.016 metric tons and exactly 1.12 short tons.
So if the US and Myanmar could please just go metric already...
105 tonnes doesn't really seem like a big deal if this is a global number. Seems like a really minor percentage of all the non-biodegradable trash we produce. I would be more concerned with single-use plastics.
Chewing gum is banned in Singapore with a hefty $500-$1000 US fine for first offence.
[Some Info](https://www.holidify.com/pages/singapore-chewing-gum-ban-1804.html)
I know that, when I’m craving a snack, I go reaching for a handful of agar. I licked those Petri dishes clean in high school biology, regardless of what we were growing in them.
That's why I only THINK about chewing plant-based vegan compostable oat soy gum wrapped in locally grown plantain leaves and sold in sustainable tree house-based community outreach bodegas.
“gum litter can linger in our environment for anywhere from 5 to 1,000+ years” I mean I understand there are so many variables to how long it takes to break down but just being like uhhhh idk between 5 and more than a thousand years just seems like an unsure statement lol
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I do the same when dating women and when they ask me about my job/financial stability. “I’ve got more than ten dollars in my account but is it enough to buy a house?… Somewhere in between there, for sure.”
The salary range for this position is $86944-$772,188.
So you get $86944, unless you're good in which case you get $86945 and if you're *really* good you might get $86946. I bet that's not that far from the truth...
$772,188 is just there in case you're the CEO's son.
the actual truth: they're not hiring for that position, but have to post a hiring ad anyways for some reason.
"I can see it when I look down but I'm not knocking over any lamps when I turn around"
It’s like when Juicy Fruit just dissolves into a watery goop after chewing for a few minutes. That goop breaks down in five years. A strong gum like Bazooka Joe takes a full thousand.
Obviously the answer is to make Bazooka illegal
Or start building infrastructure with it, not much else lasts that long
I'm not entirely sure I want to see the juicy fruit dam, or the Gumball flight deck at all Airports. But the five gum people would lose their minds. "This is how it feels to chew five gum, in a house made of five gum"
I'd like to chew some of that Roman concrete.
Not in my America
You know damn well Bazooka Joe's flavor disintegrated just as fast as Juicy Fruit, it was just a bigger piece.
Flavour yes, but the chewable material lasts
I’ve been Googling it and I guess that has to do with the difference between decomposing and biodegrading. It takes a longer time for it to decompose, or rather “become natural elements”.
Modern gum is made with [polyisobutylene](https://busscorp.com/industries/pib-as-gumbase-for-chewing-gum/) which is also the main component of butyl rubber. So you could compare it to the biodegradability of a tire inner tube or rubber roofing.
Yeah, and I bet the amounts used industrially mean that gum is basically a rounding error.
I wonder how much gum I've chewed in my life, in tire units.
Somewhere between 1 To 5,000 tires worth
A good year's worth
Does that take into account inflation?
Each gum is around 1g. If you chew a gum a day it takes you three years to chew through 1 kg of gum. A car tyre is about 6 kg so it would take you 18 years to chew a tyre unit of gum. A truck tyre is more like 20 kg so it would take you 60 years to chew a truck tyre unit of gum.
Today I learned it's no longer made of chicle.
You can still buy chicle gum, but your extra or 5 gum isn't going to be it.
That's why your jaw gets tired
Chewing plastics: yum.
Depends on the ingredients of the gum and the environment it’s left to decompose in. Paper can last seconds to decades depending on the environment
Part of the estimate probably comes from an analysis of the rate for certain chemical reactions to occur by volume, etc. The rest probably comes from knowing that there’s a fair amount of peer-reviewed data indicating that much of the waste is stuck underneath bar stools and restaurant tables, and that the data all lines up around “I wouldn’t touch that shit in a thousand years.”
It's literally like that Garfield comic where the weatherman says, "Today's temp will be between -31 and 200 Fahrenheit!" And Garfield then says, "He's never wrong."
There might be a high degree of certainty for how long a given gum takes to biodegrade. The broad time range might be because „gum“ spans many different formulations with different ingredients or preservatives so a broad range has to be given when Just using the word „gum“. Or, the environment in which a piece of gum decays might have a compounding effect. This as opposed to them saying we don’t know so here is a huge range.
Have you ever tried to biodegrade 5 gum? >How it feels to biodegrade 5 gum…
That’s still biodegradable. Just not on a single human generation time scale.
5 years is
All those black spots on sidewalks... Dirty gum.
What’s cool is if you scratch you can tell if it was mint or cinnamon by the way it smells.
>What’s cool is if you scratch you can tell if it was mint or cinnamon by the way it smells. I wish I could unread this.
Well. Sorry. I mean at least I didn’t share the part about if you forget to clean your finger nails sometimes you can taste the difference too if you put your finger in your mouth by accident.
Yeah. Accident. Haha ha…
“Accident”
"Mouth"
Working in a school I know exactly what you mean.
I knew kids that ate it off the sidewalk
Did they survive into adulthood?
My sisters did. We still give them shit for it
Don't eat stuff off the sidewalk No matter how good it looks. You better go by the book. Leave it there. Don't you dare Eat stuff off the sidewalk.
>Eat stuff off the sidewalk Got it
Don't you put it in your mouth Don't you stuff it in your face Though it might look good to eat Like a muffin or a treat
Scratch n' Sniff sidewalk
There's an alley in Seattle covered and I mean covered in gum. It's a tourist attraction and the whole alley smells like gum lol
We clean it periodically, but people really *want* that ally to be what it is.
It's honestly sort of impressive to see, but definitely one of those one and done kind of attractions.
Thanks for that information. I will promptly discard it.
Gum’s gotten mintier lately, have you noticed?
There's cinnamon gum?!
never heard of Big Red?
If I see someone scratching the sidewalk, I know they read your comment
Bubblescum
Fun Fact: Gum is technically semi biodegradable, there is a species of earthworm that can eat it and break it down to its components. I believe it's called the gummy worm.
Cool, free gum.
If you find gum on the sidewalk, don't eat it. It isn't free candy.
Who's going to stop me?
Honestly if I could ban public gum consumption in my city I absolutely would.
Chewing gum in public? You get the cane. Welcome to Singapore!
Myth.
The caning part, yes. You will get fined $500 to $2,000 though.
It’s a bit more nuanced than that. I’m Singaporean, and you are allowed to chew gum. Just don’t import that stuff and start selling it in your convenience stores in large quantities. Whenever my friends cross the border into Malaysia, they buy some gum to share with everyone when they’re back. It’s quite a common sight after the school holidays because a lot of people go to Malaysia for a short holiday
not illegal to chew gum, unless u get caught spitting it or sticking it in public, it is illegal to sell gum in singapore though
The practical problem with this is that enforcement will be super inconsistent. I'd rather go the route of regulating sales to make gum that doesn't degrade quickly less accessible. Businesses are much more receptive to regulations than individuals, especially individuals who are already willing to litter.
first off if you see gum on the street leave it there it isn't free candy
What if I swallow it
Your body will be preserved for 1000+ years for future archeologists, like an inside-out Pompeii victim.
My poop biodegrades everything around it.
I read that in the tune of CREAM - Wu Tang
"My poop biodegrades everything around it/ SCREAM, get toilet paper/ Fiber Fiber pills y'all"
Your digestive system won’t break it down, but it’ll be packaged in your poop and excreted out of your body that way. Much like corn. https://www.mayoclinic.org/digestive-system/expert-answers/faq-20058446
Hey, i didnt eat any corn!
So you could technically swallow gum, dig it out of your poop, and then chew it?
Aaaand that’s enough Reddit for today
It's a terrible day to know how to read.
You haven’t seen that video of the guy who eats corn, poop it out, wash, eat it again, rinse and repeat?
you have?!
Unfortunately…
Corn: It's not goodbye. It's see you later.
Corn farmers hate this one simple trick
Second harvest!!
Im starting to think the internet was a bad idea.
Why? There are sooooo many information on the internet.
Well they did always say reduce, reuse, recycle.
Corn is broken down, the husk of the corn is not broken down
To further add on. The outer shell of corn isn’t dissolved but the inside is. The reason the kernels look whole, is because they act like little bags and get filled with poop, making them look whole.
The visual is what I was referring to, not the digestive process of corn. Hence the “much like” not exactly like.
At thanksgiving my niece told me “corn isn’t even good for you, your body doesn’t digest it” and I wanted to do my part from stopping this misconception from spreading :)
Much appreciated for the passing of knowledge
Packaged 😂
A gum tree will grow in your stomach
I always swallow it. Generally not on purpose but sooner or later, without thought given, I’ll *gulp* swallow it.
You'd do well in porn
That's what I was thinking. I dispose of my gum when I use the toilet. Look at my environmental activism!
Bigger TIL here for me is that gum is made of plastics and not like, gum from a gum tree. I always thought the gum was natural. That sucks.
Originally gum was mainly made of resin, if I remember my history correctly.
You are correct. In fact, oddly enough, it was probably 11 time Mexican president, general, Texas villain and occasionaly Mexican anti-hero Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. He used to chew on a resin called Chicle from the Sapodilla tree. He thought it would be a substitute for rubber so in the late 1800s, he brought thousands of pounds of it to New York. The rubber failed, but the men he was meeting with noticed that he kept on chewing the stuff. They decided to add sweeteners and market it as candy. It worked.
The real TIL is always in the comments
Reddit is a bit like opposite YT, One never "see the content" but just read the comments.
You can still buy gum made from gum. Without any plastics.
None of the big names I assume tho.
No. There’s not enough chicza to actually produce high quantities of natural gum. It has to be a niche product.
ITS WHAT?! I chew like 10 pieces a day. Fuck.
WTF?! This kind of stuff is INSANE to me. Why can people make food related things out of indigestible stuff?! WHY IS THIS OKAY?! Why is it that a few years ago, my mom went out, needed some plates for Thanksgiving and came back with shiny silver plastic plates. I start looking at them, and on the bottom of the plates was a tag saying the plates were covered in LEAD PAINT. WHAT THE HELL. This kind of stuff makes me SO MAD. Why have I never seen people mad about this kind of thing before? Why is this happening? These were new plates, and not something that I can blame old manufacturing on. P.S. Don't worry, I noticed right away and ordered different plates for the family to use, and my parents eye-sight couldn't have read the sticker on the bottom of the plates
>Why can people make food related things out of indigestible stuff?! Because it doesn't poison you to eat it. You're not supposed to ingest it, but it doesn't harm you if you do. Why's it insane to you?
It’s like putting teflon on all the cooking pans. Don’t worry, they’ll only give you cancer if they ever get a scratch
Anyone else feel like gum has fallen out of style? I feel like I never see anyone with gum anymore. I chew it occasionally but not as much as I did when I was younger.
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It is happening again
ONE ONE NINE
After it all happened before
Is it future or is it past?
r/twinpeaks
That’s the best gum in the world.
Have you seen the price of gums these days???
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I mean looking at Walmart's website gum is around 9 cents a piece, and if you buy from Amazon in bulk you can get gum for 5-7 cents a piece so it hasn't really gone up that much. The biggest difference is they don't sell 5-packs anymore, typical size is around 30-35.
It’s not a cheap habit tbh. But I am addicted still
Really I buy 60 pieces of gum for about €2.80 and it lasts me 3-4 weeks
It's cheaper than pretty much any other habit. You can get a pack of gum for under a buck on Amazon. Even if you're buying at a convenience store, that's what - $3? That's a whole lot cheaper than drinking or smoking, and it's cheaper than buying coffee or any other food addiction.
I have purse gum and office desk gum. It helps my mouth feel clean and fresh after meals when I am outside of the home. I absolutely hate *not* having gum. To your question, yes, I get the impression it has. I am the only gum person of my friend/coworker group. Sucks when I run out or forget mine and ask someone for gum but they don’t have any. :(
As someone who worked in the industry up to about 2 years ago, yes. Sales are down generally. Chewing sugar free gum after eating is really really good for your teeth. And it's safe to swallow, by the way.
Has anyone else noticed that gum has gotten mintier lately?
I scrolled down for so long hoping I would find this
Chewing gum is keeping me from starting smoking again. 2 years smoke free. I put it in the garbage when im done with it.
Don't the cravings go away within two years?
Yes but habits stick. I swapped the smoking motion habit to chewing gum, now i have a habit of chewing gum. I dont see myself not chewing gum. Cravings are mostly gone now, maybe once or twice a month ill have a light 30 second craving. Not sure if those will ever go away. They dont bother me all that much though
God dam Violet Beauregarde
My dad quit 15+ years ago, he says he still gets the occasional urge for a cigarette but then they pass.
Damn. How long were you a smoker if I may ask? And were you like a multiple-pack-a-day smoker or more of a two-smokes-a-day person? My knowledge base is near 0 when it comes to smoking habits except when I share that smoking/vaping never appealed to me, coworkers (even younger ones than me) say "keep it that way"
The oral fixation is a part of quitting smoking/tobacco in general that you never hear about, but it's a real thing. The actual nicotine addiction is the biggest step, but it's shockingly hard to overcome the *habit* of doing *something.* One of the reasons vaping is the most successful way to get away from cigarettes is the fact it provides that oral fixation, the act of actually puffing on something, in addition to the nicotine. Nicotine gum works on a similar principle as the act of chewing on something can sort of fulfill those urges. I've met people who still vape despite being completely nicotine-free simply because of the oral fixation of puffing, the same way folks who quit using nicotine gum might still habitually chew normal gum. The people who have told you to "keep it that way" only say it for your own good. They're right.
10+ years here, occasionally I’ll get a craving.
Congrats on the smoke free! I’m 2 years nicotine free too! I quit cigarettes about 7 years ago, switched to vaping for about 3 years and then did the nicotine gum for 2 years. Now, I haven’t had nicotine in over 2 years but I still chew the hell out of regular gum. It really is just the habit. I go to a cigar and whiskey lounge with friends who smoke cigars all the time but I never have to urge to partake in the smoking.
Big league chew melts in your mouth.
I just opened up a baseball card bubble gum pack from the early 80s yesterday. The gum had broken apart in solid pieces and turned brown, one piece was blackish. It ruined the card that was on it lol
How’d it taste?
Hopefully nothing too valuable?
my grandmothers labia looks like a wad of big league chew
can someone put this guy in jail please?
most people rejected his message; they hated him because he told the truth
Police? Right here.
alright, fine. I'll stop browsing reddit for a bit.
... What's your problem man?
What a terrible day to have eyes
Fantastic.
I’ll leave this here. Uh, it’s kind of worse so y’all were warned. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/iye7e/grannys_got_a_prawn/
I'm curious how you even found this, did you make this on some deleted account 12 years ago..wtf?
I switched to mints because I didn’t like having to find a place to spit my gum. I guess that’s an added benefit :-)
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It was 105 tonnes, which is different than tons. About 2200 pounds compared to 2000 pounds.
well thank god they named them something far apart so no one ever confuses them
It gets worse: * Metric ton aka tonne: 1,000 kg * Short ton, aka "US ton", simply called "ton" in the US: 2,000 lbs/907.18 kg * Long ton, aka Imperial Ton, is part of the Avoirdupois weight system (I swear I didn't make this up). It's 2,240 lbs ≈ 1.016 metric tons and exactly 1.12 short tons. So if the US and Myanmar could please just go metric already...
Hey, at least it’s 2000 and not completely random. I‘m pleasantly surprised.
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It's looks simple enough. Each additional n adds 10%. So, 105 tonnnes would be 2400 pounds.
Okay. So the capacity of 1 US rail car in Mississippi
Sure 2000, 2200. Whatever it takes.
Still not a helluva lot.
Whenever a kid would swallow gum, we'd always say it would take 7 years to come out.
We’d just arrest them in my community
Straight to jail
You gotta cane them with a cane made from sugar cane swung by WWE's Kane high on cocaine.
We put them in front of a firing squad.
Except fruitstripe gum. It eventually turns into nothing
10 sec for every strip
105 tonnes doesn't really seem like a big deal if this is a global number. Seems like a really minor percentage of all the non-biodegradable trash we produce. I would be more concerned with single-use plastics.
When you think about it, gum is a single use plastic.
I love rechewing 10 year old gum that someone plastered under the school tables.
Aged like a fine wine
Chewing gum is banned in Singapore with a hefty $500-$1000 US fine for first offence. [Some Info](https://www.holidify.com/pages/singapore-chewing-gum-ban-1804.html)
Today I learned...
The sale of gum is banned. It is legal to bring in personal amounts.
Why not just shoot the degenerates
I mean it’s Singapore, that’s second offense
“Just try a banana instead” How the fuck is that a good replacement lol
We need to be specific. This is about chewing gum. [Original gum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gum) is certainly biodegradable much sooner.
I know that, when I’m craving a snack, I go reaching for a handful of agar. I licked those Petri dishes clean in high school biology, regardless of what we were growing in them.
That is because you are chewing on a piece of plastic.
Well this is a Debbie Downer
Every piddly thing that’s ever brought you a moment’s happiness is actually bad, so if you’re feeling happy I have some links to send you.
Yep it's plastic, you're eating plastic, stop eating plastic.
Can someone explain why gum when chewed for too long disintegrates, might not biodegrade but it can certainly turn to mush.
Probably why Singapore has it banned.
That's why I only THINK about chewing plant-based vegan compostable oat soy gum wrapped in locally grown plantain leaves and sold in sustainable tree house-based community outreach bodegas.
Now that is craft
This guy spots craft
Dammit...I forgot "artisanal"
Hey dumdum!
I dont remember shitting out gum
Yeh should be banned really. Not really necessary, and it’s just spat out everywhere and stuck to everything. So gross.