During the week beginning 20 February 2006, at least 12 areas in the UK got government money for an advertising campaign encouraging people to bin their used chewing gum. It follows a successful pilot schemes in Preston, Manchester and Maidstone in 2005.
These campaigns involved:
- Handing out special disposal pouches to use when there are no bins around
- Displaying posters in public places such as busy shopping areas
- Printing the message on beer mats
- Giving wardens the power to fine people £50
Read the newspaper article and answer the questions by posting a comment.
| Irish to get tax on chewing gum |
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| | Updated 15 July 2003, 20.10  Buying chewing gum in Ireland is going to get more expensive soon, after the government there revealed plans to put a new tax on it. By adding a tax of five to 10 Euro cents (four to seven pence) to the price of a pack, they hope to have more money to spend on special "gum-buster" cleaning machines. The Irish Environment Minister Martin Cullen said people could see the problem with chewing gum by looking at "our streets, our footpaths, our pavements right across the country". "It is costing local authorities millions every year to clean this up and I feel we have to have a polluter paid principle on this where the people who use chewing gum should pay a small tax." The government are also putting a tax on the polystyrene containers that fast food comes in, and receipts from cash machines. Carrier bag tax worked They hope the tax will as big a success as one they put on plastic carrier bags last year (15 cents or nine pence), which has cut the number used by around 90%. In the three months after it was introduced, shops handed out just over 23 million plastic bags - about 277 million fewer than normal. |
Some people have suggested six broad solutions to the problem of gum-littered streets:
- Ban it
- Bin it
- Polluters pay
- Makers pay
- Incentive not to drop
- Redesign gum
- Are the solutions above good ?Do you agree?
- Which of the above broad solutions will work in your area? You can pick more than one.
- Would you pay a chewing gum tax?
- Doyou agree with the Irish government?
What do you know about chewing gum? Take this short quiz and find out:
Quiz: Chewing gum (click here )
12 comments:
Hi……these are my answers....
1) I think redesigning gum is the best solution, probably the makers could do something so that gum would disolve quicklier ,for example they could try to make it disappear in 24 hours.:-))))
2) In my local area ,an incentive not to drop the gum is the best solution, because here we don’t respect laws and asking people for money would make them feel more angry.Also makers could try to experiment on redesigning gum.
3)I think I wouldn’t pay ,it would annoy me to do so.I always throw gum on the bins.And if I knew that it is forbidden to throw gum on the streets I wouldn’t buy it.
4)I agree with the taxes on polystyrene containers and receipts from cash machines because it is a ridiculous way of polluting the environment when we throw this litter. It is better to stop this early than continue accumulating this kind of garbage.
And spending money on cleaning the streets is a waste of time, because some people are going to continue throwing gum ,but I imagine that in Ireland people would accept to pay taxes ,so the government could try to persuade the makers to redesign gum ,with the money they collect.
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hello!
Poor chewing gum your time in the streets, footpaths and public places has ended.
1) I think that the best solution is to increase the dust-bins in the streets. And also could be, to improve the Incentive not to drop the Chewing gum in the streets.
2) I think that both options that I already have named.
# Bin it
# Incentive not to drop.
3) I would not pay for something like that. Because I take care my teeth. And I prefer mint sweets or mouth spray.
4) I agree of that they have to make see people, the important thing that is not throw chewing gum in streets footpaths, pavements and any publish place. With regard to paying a tax for the chewing gum, In my opinion, I think that is not the best way to solve this problem.
I hope these answers is well..!
n.n
/EMILIANO/ /HERRERA/
Hello everybody! how r u? hope fine....
Regarding your questions, here are my anwers.
1)_ I think the vast majority of the ideas are very clever and good enough. I agree with many of them. However, I disagree with the one of ban the chewing gum, because I can't imagine a world without it! :S
2)_ If I have to choose some solutions to work with in my local area, I will probably choose to start a campaign in order to incentive people not to drop their chewing gums on the streets. Moreover, I consider that the idea of
bin it, could result effective in my city.
3)_ If I had to pay a chewing gum tax, definitely I wouldn't do it! If I bought some chewing gum, I would bin it! Be sure! :)
4)_Yes, I agree with the Irish government. Firstly, it is a good idea to put a tax on the polystyrene containers as well as the receipts from cash machines. As a consequence, people will avoide the use of them.
On the other hand, perhaps in that country the idea of making polluters -who use chewing gum- to pay a tax could work well. Besides, it is neccesary as cleaning the streets is very expensive.
Well that's all 4 now!!!
Have a nice long weekend!
C.U soon! :)
Hello... I hope you are fine. My answers to the questions above are:
1-Some of the options above are good but the others like make polluters or makers pay I don't think it would work because it would be imposible to control everyone to make them pay.
2-I think the best options are to incentive people not to drop chewing gum on streets and to put special bins and give a special treatment to the gum in order not to contaminate our enviroment. For me these would work very well in my area.
3-If there were a law and I threw chewing gum on the street, I would pay. But I don't throw nothing on streets so it wouldn't be necessary for me to pay.
4-It is important that the government have interest in the care of the enviroment but maybe it would be better if they incentive people not to throw it because if they don't learn what to do with chewing gums , people would throw it on streets again and again.
Regarding to the solutions to the problem of gum-littered streets I feel that the best proposal is to make polluters pay. All of the preceding suggestions have been tasted at a time, so judging by their results fining polluters is by far the best alternative. Governors cannot band the consumption of chewing gums as we are living in broad twenty one century. Banding it would seem rude. On the other hand it is not a good idea to bin its use or to obliged makers pay because they just manufacture chewing gum. It wouldn`t be fair to make them pay for the ones who actually contaminate our city. Apart from that, incentiviating not to drop is of no much use to improve our city conditions. Most polluters tend to be very stubborn when it comes to cooperating with this kind of environmental pilot schemes, so in fining them for dropping chewing gum people will think twice about doing it again.
All in all I sure that making polluters pay would work in Irish as well as here in Salta ,as no one likes to see how their money goes on fines.
I am not of the same opinion as the Irish government about getting tax on chewing gum. it wouldn’t be fair, at all, because not all consumers give chewing gums an irresponsible use. They might love eating it and it isn’t unlawful. The problem is only with those careless consumers. Why pay for others?
Natali
Hi! I hope you are ok….
These are my answers to the questions about the chewing gum..
• I think some of the solutions could be quite helpful. For example, make polluters pay and incentive not to drop it. I think the government could make advertisements and put them in buses, tv programmes, markets, schools, everywhere in the city in order to estimulate people not to throw litter like chewing gum in the streets.
On the other hand, polluters should pay a tax for making our city looks dirty but the taxes ought to be small ones. I consider that these two suggestions should be implemented all over the world, so that people learn where to throw chewing gum.
• Personally, I wouldn`t pay a tax because I don’t consume it. But I consider that if I ate it, I had to pay a small tax. I agree with the Irish government because it would be a useful way to collect money from all the society to pay the cleaning of the streets. In this way everybody could contribute to make our city nicer and cleaner. A clean city, also, attracts tourists to visit it and this, of course, creates more working posts.
hello !!!!!!
I really like this topic because is so interesting and I have never thought how chewing-gums can affect our environment.
I think if we don´t do something now, our cities will become impssible to live in.We have the time, the money and even technology to prepare the way for a better, cleaner and safer future.
My answers to the questions are:
1- I agree with the government because it pretend to encourage people to stop and think before they drop their gums.
2_ If I have to choose a solution, I will probably choose to make a big campaing in order to incentive people throwing chewing gums into litter- bins.
Throughout the campaing I will be engaging the public, raising awareness and also reminding everyone that dropping gum is harmful.L ittered gum is unsightly,messy and costly to remove.
3_ I sure If I ate chewing- gum and it was banned,I would pay a tax without opposition.
4_I totally agree with the government because it only pretend to reduce the amount of gum dropped on the borough´s streets.
That´s all.I hope that like you.
Good day!!!!!!!!
Hello everybody!! I hope you are ok!!!
Well the thing is that the posted topic is interesting and I have to admit that I got surprised when for the first time I read the newspaper article and let me say that I’ve never heard about paying for consumption of chewing gum.
As regards with the questions these are my answers:
1- in my opinion the solutions are good and I think some of them could work very well for instance incentive not to drop chewing gum or redesign gum and so on but the others solutions wouldn’t work because people who consume chewing gum wouldn’t agree to pay a tax for it so neither the polluters nor the makers would accept to pay for it. First it wouldn’t be fair for the makers to pay because they just work. Polluters wouldn’t pay at all and Banding it wouldn’t work because polluters wouldn’t care about it. Of course it is just my opinion.
2- To my point of view the solution would be: incentive not to drop chewing gum it’s a good idea for instance government could launch a campaing in order to cover many important areas where the most amount of people meet so they could see many advertisements related to not dropping chewing gum. And also redesign gum is another option but it would require much money.
3- Not at all, as I don´t consume chewing gum I don’t have to pay a tax por it. And it wouldn’t work because most people don’t agree on paying a tax so it would end in many problems.
4- Well to me it is great that the government is taking action on solving the pollution problem but I don’t agree on paying a tax because there are some people who just consume chewing gum for pleasure and they put it in the right place I mean in bins and if they have to pay a tax it will be unfair for them. As regards polluters they won’t pay a tax at all.
natalia
Hello...
On the subject I think that no matter the number of containers that exist in the streets to throw our gum, if people have no education about hygiene.
1_ I think the solutions if they are correct because it is the only way to make people aware about hygiene.
2_ I think the best option to put into practice in my area is "incentive not to drop."
3_ I would not pay, just try not to drop my gum on the floor. Would not because, knowing my country, only some people would pay the tax and others not, and that's unfair.
4_ What the Irish government is doing is good, but if the people from small, were not well educated about hygiene, it would not help, because people do not get used to fulfill and would continue dropping chewing gum.
Bye-Bye
1-I agree with making polluters pay. I think that redesigning gum is not a bad idea but is necessary make an impact to obtain a change...
2-I think that in my local area is necessary to create conscience urgently and for me the only way is making polluters pay for their infraction, other ways they will continue doing whatever they want, because people do not respect environment. I know people would annoy with that rule, but I am sure if they do so, they will start taking care of the nature...
3-I think I would pay... but just for a time! =) Waiting for a good result soon... because I hope people take conscience and stop doing so.
4-I agree with them, but it is not a complete solution... It has not sense pay taxes (all your life) to clean street because of the gums... I think the best could be persuading people to change their behaviour for example redesigning gum or simply throw gums on bins.... Obviously keeping the rule of paying taxes until people stop doing so... On the other hand pollution will increase!...
C U...
hello guys !!! here me again !!! lol
1_ To my point of view these solutions are taken in an extreme way so forme they are not good.
2_ I think that the best way to do thatis to incentive not to drop them it's just a gum !!!
3_ I would never pay any tx gum never never neve !!!!!
4_ I don't agree with the government to take those solutions I mean there are many other facts to solve, many more important facts !!!
well CU in clas guys...
Hello everybody it's me here again ...
As regard the solutions to this problem, I think it will be good to make polluters pay. On the other hand, bin the chuwing gum producers is a completely ridicolus idea since these people are working.
coul be a better idea to create consience in our society not only not to drop chewing gum but not to drop any kind of garbage and respect the others and our world. could be a nice idea to start doing this in shcool since children are a wonderful" mean" of comunication.
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