{"id":668440,"date":"2026-07-01T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:53:10","slug":"funding-to-help-remove-chewing-gum-litter-from-nottingham-city-centre-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668440\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding to help remove chewing gum litter from Nottingham city centre streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council is one of 50 authorities nationally that successfully applied to the task force, a national scheme established by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and administered by Keep Britain Tidy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the city council, previous rounds of the programme found gum littering dropped by 86% in the first two months after cleaning and public awareness campaigns were introduced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said reductions were still being seen six months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newark and Sherwood District Council has also been awarded funding as part of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority announced it would be receiving \u00a327,366 from the task force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Taylor, the council&#8217;s portfolio holder for public protection and community relations, said: &#8220;Alongside targeted cleaning, this initiative is also about encouraging long-term behaviour change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By raising awareness and promoting responsible disposal, we can all play a part in protecting our local environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allison Ogden-Newton, Keep Britain Tidy chief executive, said: &#8220;While chewing gum litter remains a stubborn eyesore in our public spaces, the good news is that this scheme is already driving major improvements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council is one of 50 authorities nationally that successfully applied to the task force, a national scheme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}