In the UK alone, some 100,000 tons of it is chewed every year, and 95% of the country’s streets are stained with it.
Some of the plastics that can be found in regular gum:
- Butadiene-styrene rubber
- Isobutylene-isoprene copolymer (butyl rubber)
- Paraffin (via the Fischer-Tropsch process)
- Petroleum wax
- Petroleum wax synthetic
- Polethylene
- Polvinyl acetate