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 ...

Gum as a microplastic source To quantify how much plastic might be released during chewing, Lisa Lowe, a UCLA PhD student and co-author of the study, chewed seven pieces from 10 different brands ...

If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now ... synthetic gum brands and five brands of natural gum. The study did not release the brand names of the gums that were tested. Most chewing gums ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that ... microplastics seeping into our food. With gum, it literally is our food. Brands produced by manufacturers like Wrigley, you ...

Furthermore, Nuud chewing gum founder Keir Carner claimed there were “American brands that purport to be natural but use a plastic gum base and because of the legislation they don’t list the plastic ...

chewing gum may release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva, which could then be swallowed. Many gum brands use synthetic rubber bases, which are made from petroleum-based polymers ...

Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap. Others contain synthetic polymers derived from the petroleum industry. These various ...

10 types of chewing gum — five brands each of natural and synthetic gum — were chewed by a single participant. Participants chewed the gum for a specified duration of 2-20 minutes. Saliva ...

The National Confectioners Association, which represents chewing gum manufacturers in the United States, said in a statement that the study's authors had admitted "there is no cause for alarm".