Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers – similar to the plastic material used in car ...

While often marketed as a harmless, chewy sweet, most mass-produced gums, including prominent names like Wrigley, are made ...

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

Chewing gum fiends might want to think twice before popping in another piece of gum. A pilot study found that chewing gum can ...

Scientists have found plastic fragments can shed off cutting boards, takeout containers and even laminated paper cups with ...

You could swallow them when you drink from single-use plastic water bottles. Now another source of microplastics in the body ...

Business Waste used the latest studies to create shocking images that illustrate how high levels of microplastic exposure can ...

A recent study reveals that chewing gum can expose users to over 250,000 microplastic particles per hour, raising health ...

This study contributes to addressing micro and nano plastic pollution, which is a global ... such as chewing gum,' said Dr Cuong Cao, an author of the study. 'Our findings fill gaps in micro ...

New research by Queen’s University Belfast has found that chewing gum can release over a quarter of a million microplastics ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are a potential health hazard with unknown long-term impacts on the human body. The study ...