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

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

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

A new study suggests that you could be ingesting thousands of microplastics every time you chew gum. This discovery comes ...

When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.

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

And now, researchers are finding them in chewing gum. A pilot study revealed that chewing gum releases hundreds of these ...

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

A new study showed that chewing gum releases microplastics, which can then be swallowed and absorbed by the body.

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

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

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