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Campaigners urge government to act on chewing gum, a ‘hidden single-use plastic’

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Plastic pollution charity City to Sea, has teamed up with plastic-free chewing gum company Nuud, headed up by BBC Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Keir Carnie, to launch ‘Chew Plants Not Plastic’. The campaign urges the government to ban plastic chewing gum and expose the giants of…

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