The makers of Chicza say it is the first biodegradable chewing gum ever sold.

CNN: New gum could mean sticky end for mess

Wearing hard-hat, paper mask, and gloves I walked around Ground Zero with ministry students giving bottles of water, Red Bull, and chewing gum to first-responders working the pile.

FORBES: If You Don't Take Time To Remember, You Forget

They didn't really take hold until 1974, when a shopper in Toledo, Ohio swiped a pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum across the first grocery store scanner.

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"This is the first fine that we have issued specifically for chewing gum litter, " said Jim Jones, the council's executive board member for environmental and public protection.

BBC: South West Wales