Chew on This: Your Gum Is Basically a Microplastic Snack
Chewing gum: great for fresh breath, fun for blowing bubbles, and… oh yeah… apparently a solid source of microplastics. Scientists just discovered that every stick you chew releases hundreds to thousands of tiny plastic particles straight into your saliva. And before you get smug about your “natural” gum, turns out, it’s just as bad.
At the American Chem…
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