Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers – similar to the plastic material used in car tyres. If you find that thought slightly unsettling, you are not alone.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet. The small study ...

TOWIE's Elma Pazar looked nothing short of sensational as she and Ella Rae Wise stepped out for to film for the smash hit reality TV show in Essex on Friday. The reality favourite, 32, showed off ...

New research shows that chewing gum can release hundreds or possibly thousands of microplastics into saliva, which may then be absorbed into the body. Even all-natural gum sheds microplastics when ...

Servotronics, the embattled Elma motion control equipment maker, is weighing options for its future, including a possible sale of the company. “The board will evaluate all options which may ...

Clever engineers at a Chinese video company called HTX Studio built a tiny, swiveling robot that can shoot pieces of gum right into your mouth. In a video that made the rounds on social media over ...

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 mouthful of chewing gum might also be a mouthful of microplastics, according to the results of a small pilot study. The research, presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society, ...

Now, researchers have added chewing gum to the growing list of products that expose humans to microplastics. A team of researchers has revealed that chewing a single stick of gum can release ...

Jesse Arden Sherman, a 63-year-old man from Elma, learned of his sentence at a Monday hearing in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma. Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright ...

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 ...

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 ...