The benefits of non-stick gum are obvious for government authorities, which spend a lot of time and money keeping streets clean.
Hundreds of people took to London streets to clean up broken glass and debris left by looters.
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Residents in the city donned masks and helped clean streets or deliver first aid.
We all want good jobs, good schools, health care, safe streets, a clean environment.
May Gurney employs more that 6, 000 people and mend potholes, collect and recycle household rubbish, clean streets, repair street lights and rebuild railway bridges.
Beneath the veneer of its squeaky-clean streets, super-efficient tram systems, rigorous banking principles and holier-than-thou Alpine churches lies a somewhat stranger city that is ready to surprise at every turn.
Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
And third, recognizing our community, our common obligations to preserve and strengthen our families, to do our duty to our parents, to fulfill our obligation to give our children the best future possible, with good schools and good health care and safe streets and a clean environment.
They were cleared off the streets in a 'clean-up' in anticipation of the Fifa World Youth Soccer Championship.
We saw this resolve in the people who gathered in Clapham, in Manchester, in Wolverhampton with brooms to clean up the streets.
Forum volunteers organise activities from Olympics fun days to charity football matches and litter picks, which regularly encourage more than 100 children out on Sparkbrook's streets to keep the area clean.
When most people think of Singapore, if they do at all, they think of an order-obsessed Asian version of Wall Street or London's Canary Wharf, only with implausibly clean, sterile streets and no crime.
"We hope forecasts are exaggerating the amount of snow, but you never can tell, " Bloomberg said, adding that at least the bad weather is arriving on a weekend, when the traffic is lighter and snowplows can clean up the streets more easily.
And there are other companies pursuing clean energy along these streets as well.
As the blog says it is about "efforts by the local community to keep the streets of Kings Cross in London clean and liveable" and reflected some, but not all, of the local activism aiming to end the area's rather seamy reputation.
The day before the celebrations in Bindura, residents were given an hour off work to clean the town's streets.
The third founder is New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, which wants to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.
For example, one of its founders, New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, is a nonprofit group that doesn't disclose its donors.
In one of the favelas, outside of the city, one woman (Regina Silva Gomes) decided that she would collect local garbage and exchange it for food lead a project to clean up the community, where the streets were littered with trash and infested with rodents.
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He said he saw residents take chain saws to remove trees that lay across city streets, pile them along the side of the road and clean debris from culverts.
It has put forward a clean water action plan to deal with runoff from city streets and farms.
As for the government, it has spent millions on emergency programmes designed to clean up the rubbish that in recent weeks has piled up in the streets of Naples.
The talking variety is designed to encourage people to throw their trash in the bins instead of on the streets, the theory being that with some encouragement, citizens and tourists will want to keep the city clean.
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