You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...

The subject chewed each piece of gum for 4 minutes, producing samples of saliva every 30 seconds, then did a final mouth rinse with clean water ... for example bubble gum or sugar-free gum ...

Those numbers get all the scarier when considering how durable gum is when littered. Because it's difficult and labor-intensive to clean up, discarded gum often stays stuck on pavements and ...

First, each piece of gum was chewed by a single subject for four minutes, with saliva samples collected every 30 seconds until the end, when they were combined with a final mouth rinse with clean ...

Researchers have found yet another potential contributor to the increasing amount of microplastics found in our bodies: gum. According ... rinsing their mouth with clean water.

The average cost is £1.50 per square meter and estimates suggest that the annual clean-up cost for chewing gum pollution for councils in the UK is around £7 million. There have been some efforts ...