While it’s certainly not true that chewing gum takes seven years to digest, there’s no denying that it can have an adverse effect on not just your health, but also the environment.
Regular chewing gum has a substance called PVA (polyvinyl acetate), which is used to make tyres and glue. The gums that we consume are plastic based, and PVA, in fact also damages public property.
A Research Gate report states, “Each year, chewing gum generates more than 105 tonnes of ‘plastic’ garbage. Thus, the discarded non-biodegradable residue of the gum produces plastic pollution.” This waste is hard to collect or track and ends up living and polluting the earth for thousands of years.
As a step towards reducing gum waste, a Bengaluru startup has made a “plastic-free, fully biodegradable and all-natural ingredient” chewing gum. With over 5 lakh pieces of gum sold since its launch in 2022, Gud Gum, founded by Mayank B Nagori and his brother Bhuvan, also claims to have…