How long in years does it take chewing gum to biodegrade?

Answer 1

It takes extremely long because the base of chewing gum is either (depending on the make) rubber, wax or plastic, which all degrade very slowly.

From Yahoo Answers:

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.


The bottom line: Don't spit your gum out in the compost or on the sidewalk, and don't stick it under the table; put it in the trash. Contrary to persistent urban legends, you can also swallow your gum. It'll eventually pass right on through, undigested. Yum.

Answer 2

If you have swallowed it before you have had sex then you have to swallow the semen of a ginger asian black man. they are very rare and hard to find as they are crafty little fxxkers. however they can be loured out of their dusty underground caverns with a bowl of lucky charms dipped in fried donkey diarrhea with herpes infected penis slices) BUT...if you have had sex..then all you need to do is perform oral sex on a hobo while being anally penetrated by a ladyman....good luck my friend and happy decomposing

Answer 3

Having 50 or 30 years to digest is just a myth. It takes as long as it does to digest regular food which is 1-3 days.

Answer 4

Its undigestable, but still comes out the same time everything else does in your 

Answer 5

about a week or two weeks

Answer 6

you must cut it the place i in compost bin the wait for a few decates