SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study found that chewing gum can release up to thousands of microplastics per piece and potentially be ingested, according to researchers. Lisa Lowe and Jamie ...

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece ... in size from less than 0.2 inch (5 millimeters) to 1/25,000th of an ...

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds to thousands of ... Microplastic (smaller than 5 millimeters in size) and nanoplastic (under 0.001 millimeters) particles have become ubiquitous ...

According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, a single piece of chewing gum is liable to ... 1 micrometer- and 5 millimeters-wide each year.

New research shows that chewing gum can release hundreds or possibly thousands of microplastics into saliva, which may then be absorbed into the body. Even all-natural gum sheds microplastics when ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece ... plastic ranging from 1 nanometer to 5 millimeters in size — are released ...

In fact, it’s thought that our food, our drinks, and our plastic packaging can cause us to ingest tens of thousands of microplastics each year, with every piece sitting at around 1 micrometer to 5 ...

Chewing gum ... (0.04 ounces) of gum released an average of 100 microplastic fragments, though some shed more than 600. The average weight of a stick of gum is around 1.5 grams.

A researcher has identified a surprising source of plastic pollution: chewing ... pieces of gum weigh around 1.4 grams — which would mean that nearly 2.4 million tons, or about 5.4 billion ...