A SINGLE piece of chewing gum releases thousands of toxic microplastics into your mouth to be swallowed, scientists have ...

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

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

A study shows chewing gum could release up to 600 microplastic fragments, raising awareness of ingestion and environmental ...

Gum is made of plastic, and chewing both synthetic and natural gums could release microplastics into your mouth, according to ...

The plastic pieces - measuring less than five millimetres across - are shed by everyday items like cutting boards, tea bags, food packaging and some clothes as they gradually break down.

Chewing a single piece of gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study has warned.

Conservationists picked up hundreds of thousands of pieces of rubbish from British beaches last year, according to a charity.

Plastic pyrolysis is a chemical process that involves chemically breaking down plastics into other molecules by heating the plastics to extremely high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet. The small study ...

Supermarket Iceland has advised customers not to eat its vegetable lasagne because the product could contain pieces of plastic. The retailer said the possible presence of plastic in the own-brand ...