A podcast years ago. A cursory search confirms that modern chewing gum has a “gum base” that contains food safe plastic polymer. Old school ones are made from gum from trees, but that hasn’t been economically viable for like a century.
Most of it will decompose but other parts either gets buried in a landfill or gets burned where the smoke goes into the sky and turns into stars.



Oh damn they coded the random red ring of death into an emulator? That’s really cool. I wonder how they can emulate the euphoric and absolutely not infuriating experience of scratching a disc for no apparent reason.