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

Chewing gum fiends might want to think twice before popping in another piece of gum. A pilot study found that chewing gum can ...

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

A new study found that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. Both synthetic and natural ...

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

Chewing gum may expose the body to microplastics. UCLA scientists identified tiny particles that break off and enter the body ...

Microplastics—tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...