prch Guest Post – This surprisingly interesting post from my colleague at the Ethical Blogger Network will have you thinking twice about gum. You can find the original aticle on ethicalunicorn.com.

The Sustainability of Chewing Gum – Overview

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Facts About Gum:

• Gum’s not a modern invention
  • The Mayans chewed chicle, the sap from the sapodilla tree
  • The Greeks chewed mastiche, from the resin of the mastic tree
• Gum is the biggest litter issue after cigarette butts
• The main ingredient in modern gum is polyisobutylene, a synthetic rubber derived from crude oil
• Goodyear -yes the tire company- is the main manufacturer of gum’s base ingredients
• Worldwide people chew around 560,000 tons of gum each year
• London spends £10 million per year cleaning up chewing gum

Sustainable Gum

Chicza is 100% natural and organically certified; it’s also sustainably harvested from the chicozapote tree in the Mayan forest and produced by a consortium of cooperatives under a fair trade scheme.… Read More