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 ...

COMMON foods have been found to be teeming with concerning levels of toxic plastic additives by scientists – including baby ...

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

Despite advances in wastewater treatment, tiny plastic particles called microplastics are still slipping through, posing potential health and environmental hazards, according to new research.

Plastic, if ingested, can cause one of the most serious cancers. The matter should draw the attention of scientists associated with the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) ...

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...

It described the amount of microplastics found in human brains and how their concentration has increased over the last decade ...

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...

Microplastics have previously been detected throughout the human body including in the blood, saliva, liver, kidneys, lungs, ...

The government is aiming completion of physical infrastructure at all nine plastic parks by end of 2025, according to ...

In the UK in February, plastic-free gum brand Nuud teamed up with plastic-free pollution company City to Sea to call on the UK government to ban plastic gum and for better labelling. The UK consumes ...