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

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

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

According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, a single piece of chewing gum is liable to ... it’s actually your teeth that are mostly responsible ...

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

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 ...

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics ... in the first two minutes of chewing, the release says, because the grinding of teeth causes the plastic to break ...

Generations of Americans have grown up using chewing gum, but a new pilot study claims that both synthetic and natural gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into saliva ...

Chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into the saliva that may be ingested. Research presented this week at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San ...

Now you can add your favorite chewing gum to the list, thanks to the alarming findings of a new study. Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers ...