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

UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and ...

The data are part of a growing body of research that is giving Americans more reasons to pop some gum in their mouths and chew away. One line of research suggests that gum should no longer be ...

Wrigley’s Extra gum, known variously as Orbit, Yida and Freedent in international markets ... still be flexed creatively to meet any markets’ needs.” For a long time, chewing gum has had a fairly bad ...

with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces Getty Chewing gum can shed microplastics — and natural and synthetic gums contain “similar amounts of microplastics.” Each stick of gum ...

“It’s not easy to chew gum when you’re wearing a mask,” she ... The campaign for Orbit and Extra, as well as Mars’s Freedent and Yida brands, uses pop-art graphics and humor partly ...

A researcher has identified a surprising source of plastic pollution: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of Portsmouth revealed ...