The Arrecife City Council has announced that several operators are testing for several days a pioneering machine in the Canary Islands to remove chewing gum from streets and sidewalks, in order to verify "its operation for its acquisition and thus contribute to the cleaning of the city." In this sense, the Councilor for Cleaning, Tomás Fajardo, has assured that "this type of actions must go hand in hand with greater citizen collaboration".
The machine, which "is 100% ecological", has a novel system with which it can "clean up to 200 chewing gums per hour", according to the Consistory of the capital of Lanzarote. It is designed "so that the work is fast, safe and with freedom of movement and works with two bottles of LPG gas and a bottle of two liters of ecological solution", he added.
From the Department of Cleaning of the Arrecife City Council they have assured that "its effectiveness will be verified to bet on this investment and continue with our cleaning campaign of the city of Arrecife." Likewise, he stressed that a "awareness on the part of everyone to maintain a cleaner, more civic and pleasant city" is necessary and has recalled that, together with the street cleaning company Urbaser, the City Council has been carrying out the campaign 'Arrecife, clean is more' for a few months.
"These chewing gum removal machines follow the trail of innovation in urban cleaning since chewing gum stains on sidewalks can accumulate up to 50,000 germs per milligram", according to the Consistory's extraction of analyzes carried out.