Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year . . . from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point, I decided that Orbit Wintermint was my favorite mint chewing gum. Was it the lovely cerulean packaging? Was it that ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study, which is awaiting peer review, a team of UCLA ...

Chewing gum can shed potentially harmful microplastics into saliva, warns new research. A pilot study found that the popular product can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into ...

LONDON - FEBRUARY 21: Some of the estimated 300,000 pieces of used chewing gum that litter Oxford Street are seen as pedestrians walk by, as capital cities are due to hold a joint summit for the first ...