Dive Summary:
- Mondelez, formerly Kraft, the second largest gum manufacturer in the world, has filed a patent for gum that degrades when discarded into the environment.
- The company's R&D team has developed a substance that absorbs more water than traditional gum, allowing it to break apart in the environment or on sidewalks etc.
- Wrigley's, Mondelez's major competitor in the gum industry, developed something similar last year—a gum that was much less sticky than regular gum.
From the article:
“The present inventors have surprisingly found that presence of an alternating copolymer of an alkene and
maleic anhydride in a chewing gum composition provides degradation properties to the chewing gum,” said
Kraft in its patent application.
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