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

More than 250,000 microplastics (MPs) were detected in the saliva of a person after one hour of chewing a single piece of 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.

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But ...

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

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

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

Microplastics are in our water, air and seafood. It's been recently discovered to be in chewing gum, too. Here's what to know ...

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, ...