Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more plastic when you chew gum.

Many of us don't think twice about casually popping a stick of gum in our mouth. But chew on this: When you do, you're also ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the bottom ...

The gum shed almost all of the microplastics during the first eight minutes of chewing, she added. David Jones, a researcher at the UK’s University of Portsmouth not involved in the study ...

New research by Queen’s University Belfast has found that chewing gum can release over a quarter of a million microplastics and detectable ... leading marketing data and analytics company, today ...

Surprisingly, microplastics were found in both the ... And we don’t know if chewing gum releases nanoplastics at all. The trouble is that nanoplastics are so tiny that they require specialised ...

The study found that chewing gum could release a surprisingly high amount of microplastics. On average, 100 microplastic ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... have increasingly been discovering small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, led by engineering professor Sanjay Mohanty, conducted the study to quantify the amount of microplastics released from chewing gum during ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... have increasingly been discovering small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the ...