Chewing gum as a potential source of microplastics has yet to be widely studied. They’re made from a rubbery base, sweetener, ...

A SINGLE piece of chewing gum releases thousands of toxic microplastics into your mouth to be swallowed, scientists have ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers have said, also warning of ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

Chewing gum can shed potentially harmful microplastics into saliva, warns new research. A pilot study found that the popular ...

Binning gum is not the solution either. Addressing gum as a plastic pollutant dictates that the prevention of gum pollution ...

The researchers tested five brands of synthetic gum and five of natural ... the first eight minutes of chewing, she added. David Jones, a researcher at the UK’s University of Portsmouth not ...

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning ...