A new tool to help clean up graffiti will soon be used in Austin.

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A company representative demonstrates how easily marks can be removed from a wall treated with the special coating.

ANA, which stands for Always New Surface, uses an ultraviolet light to apply and cure a coating instantly. An acrylic-urethane hybrid polymer coat resurfaces porous surfaces including concrete or stone.

The real trick is the walls treated with ANS are easier to clean if graffiti artists strike again.

"Once the graffiti is cleaned off, it's treated with this material. Then it will provide protection to the surface to make it easy to clean. If somebody does come along and puts spray paint on or magic marker or something like that is easily wiped off," said Charlie Foster, Always New Surface.

Thursday's debut of the ANS system in Austin is also the first time it's being used in the U.S. It was first introduced in Great Britain

In the first seven months of this year, it's estimated the City of Austin cleaned 10,000 graffiti sites with taxpayers picking up the tab.