STEP 1 CASE STUDY No.2 Gumdrop Bins
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[The Story]
UK councils spend over £150 million a year removing chewing gum from pavements and other surfaces. Chewing gum is humankind’s most common habit, with over 3.74 trillion sticks of the stuff made every year. This equates to over 100,000 tonnes of gum manufactured annually. The negative outcome from all this chewing is that most of the gum ends up on our pavements. The removal of this waste is an expense most local authorities would rather not have and many cannot afford.
In 2009 Anna Bullus was studying design when she had an idea to create bins specifically designed to deal with the problem of collecting chewing gum. Bullus discovered ...
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