PARIS: Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people’s mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also ...
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 ...
With a typical piece of gum weighing between two to six grams, an individual piece could release up to 3,000 plastic particles, researchers said. According to Mohanty, the study’s principal ...
I examined several types of gum and found that the most common weight of an individual piece of gum is 1.4g—that means that globally, a staggering 2.436 million tons of gum are produced each ...
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 ...
"Chewing gum is one of the foods we chose because it is the only food where plastic polymer is used as an ingredient," Mohanty told CNN via email. "Other foods are contaminated with microplastics ...
If we subject any type of plastic to stress, be it heat, friction, sunlight, seawater, or in this case vigorous mastication, ...
Now you can add your favorite chewing gum to the list, thanks to the alarming findings of a new study. Chewing gum, whether ...
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