Gu Gum Drops - The Secret Material of Recycled Candy Wrappers

In two thousand eight, a company the u k. Began working on a bright pink disposal bin called gum drops for people to drop their chewed gum into. These bins are made of recycled material. One street in london, a da trial run of gu gum drop systemand supposedly lowered the amount of gum litter by forty per cent.

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[Trivia Question]

Minnesota paper waste ball

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0

[Fact Off]

Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/

http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/