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

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

Gum is made of plastic, and chewing both synthetic and natural gums could release microplastics into your mouth, according to ...

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Stop munching on that plastic. The U.S. National Institute of Health estimates that over 350 billion pieces of chewing gum ...

Today, most companies’ gum base is a proprietary blend of synthetic and natural ingredients: If a packet lists “gum base” as an ingredient, that gum most likely contains synthetic polymers.

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Researchers have found yet another potential contributor to the increasing amount of microplastics found in our bodies: gum. According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical ...

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

A SINGLE piece of chewing gum releases thousands of toxic microplastics into your mouth to be swallowed, scientists have warned. Tiny plastic particles shed by everyday items like cutting boards ...