When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of Portsmouth revealed that most ...
(CNN) - If you like chewing gum, you may be surprised to learn that you are bringing in potentially hundreds of microplastics into your mouth. Researchers at the University of California in Los ...
Chewing gum can shed microplastics ... in plastics shed by natural, and synthetic gum. “Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a ...
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 ...
You may have another culprit to consider: It's gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece ... "If we subject any type of plastic to stress, be it heat, friction ...