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 chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both ...

FOOD we eat can lift our mood and support our mental health. Eating chocolates or our favorite sweets induces the secretion of happy hormones in us. Those hormones include ...

Taylor Leamey writes about all things wellness, specializing in mental health, sleep and nutrition coverage. She has invested hundreds of hours into studying and researching sleep and holds a ...

What seems like a harmless habit — chewing gum — may actually hide a growing public health ... These tiny fragments, known as microplastics, may enter the human body with every chew. The study, part ...

But, like other plastics, synthetic chewing gum does not biodegrade and can persist in the environment for many years. In the environment it will harden, crack and breakdown into microplastics but ...

Referred to as “gum base ... after prolonged chewing. According to GreenSeas Trust, littered gum will not decompose naturally but instead photodegrades into microplastics.