SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life, such as cutting boards, clothes and cleaning sponges, can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic ...

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, ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases hundreds — if not thousands — of microplastics into your saliva, which ...

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 chomping on, and possibly ingesting, hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

One study showed that chewing a piece of gum for as little as two minutes released microplastics into the mouth. 11 Researchers found that even natural gum had microplastic contamination. So, even if ...

Chewing a single piece of gum for an hour can release over 250,000 microplastics and nanoplastics into saliva. A Queen's University Belfast study highlighted chewing gum as an overlooked source of ...

Are there really microplastics in chewing gum? George tries to find out. In March of 2025, scientists announced they'd found microplastics in 10 brands of chewing gum, including five brands of ...

For years, Tom Raviv thought he was being careful about what he put in his body. Working long hours in mergers and acquisitions, he’d read the ingredients on snack or protein bar wrappers as he ...

In just over a year since its US launch, Milliways has scaled to more than 2,000 stores nationwide including Sprouts, Meijer, Hy-Vee, Raley's and Fred Meyer, and is the best-selling plastic-free 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 chomping on, and possibly ingesting, hundreds, if not thousands, of ...