Chewing gum contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers, making it a potential source of microplastics; however, the ...

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

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

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

People who chew around 180 pieces of gum a year could be ingesting roughly 30,000 microplastics, the researchers said.

Chewing gum can release thousands of microplastics into saliva. Scientists say more research is needed but suggest chewing ...

New study finds chewing gum releases up to 637 microplastic particles in just minutes, with 94% released in the first 8 ...

A large stick of gum could release more than 3,000 microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Here’s what that ...

Microplastics—tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

Chewing gum can secrete tiny plastic particles into saliva and bloodstreams, scientists in the US and China say, pointing to ...

Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.

They found that a gram (0.04 ounces) of gum released an average of 100 microplastic fragments, though some shed more than 600 ...