guilty of gum

Two sets of Indigo Buntings have graced our feders again this year. What a song they have to share for their seed. Two hummingbirds duel over the two feeders we put out fresh every three days. Mother Nature is most awesome. There's a gift at every turn. How we take care of her is up to each and everyone of us. Driving behind a business man the other day who turn down his window and threw out trash! It must have been cluttering up his car. I couldn't believe it. I was appalled, People still throw trash around like it will just disappear like magic. I'm guilty of it. I thought gum was biodegradable, but it isn't!

Stuck on you: a gum-covered tree.Every commercial gum has a gum base, just like every trophy has a trophy base, and in some cases the two are disturbingly similar. The base makes up a percentage of the gum; the remaining ingredients are flavor and sugar. Gum bases are the part that we chew and chew and chew long after the flavor is just a memory. They are grouped in categories: elastomers (including natural and synthetic rubbers), resins, plasticizers (such as waxes, vegetable oils, and glycerides), adjuvants (including calcium carbonate, talc, or other charging agents), and antioxidants. In other words, the gum is, at base, plastic or rubber or wax.
~Grist Magazine