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

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Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

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The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

Instead, “both synthetic and natural gums had similar amounts of microplastics released when we chewed them,” Lowe said. The release says large pieces of gum release up to 3,000 pieces of.micr ...

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The researchers found that both synthetic and natural gums contained the same types of polymers and released similar amounts of microplastics when chewed. The most common polymers for both types ...