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    Mute Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua
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    May 22nd 2019, 1:23 PM

    Ok – after “Do you throw gum in the wrong bin at work? See how you compare here” and a whole article – I still don’t know which bin I’m supposed to throw used gum into!

    I would have assumed the general waste bin – is it compostable?

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    May 22nd 2019, 5:05 PM

    @Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua: most chewing gum is made of plastic and, to my knowledge, isn’t recycled here in Ireland

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    May 22nd 2019, 3:59 PM

    Will your DNA be on the Gum when they find it to prove it was you who through it on the Ground

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    May 22nd 2019, 5:39 PM

    Seriously..are you really asking people about where they put their chewing gum in work ??

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    May 22nd 2019, 2:32 PM

    What a load of rubbish!

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    Mute Mike Rugby Nuts
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    May 23rd 2019, 6:44 AM

    Patronising drivel

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