I first wrote about plastic in chewing gum in January of 2010. At that time, there really was no brand of gum available that didn’t either contain plastic in the packaging or in the gum itself. And as I wrote back then, even Glee Gum, one of the most natural brands in town, was combining plastic […]
2016 Update: Â Sadly, it looks like Green Tree Gum has gone out of business. This post remains active for archive purposes only. Â I have removed links to the company’s website, as they no longer work. I don’t chew gum, but Michael does, as did legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager (maybe he still does.) Â But if […]
Almost all chewing gum is made with plastic, plastic which hides in a secret ingredient called “gum base.” Â The few gums that don’t contain plastic as an ingredient come in plastic packaging. Finally, there’s a U.S. company — Simply Gum — offering a completely natural, GMO-free chewing gum made with organic ingredients and without any […]
November 2014 Update: Unfortunately, Peppersmith has decided to start adding plastic to its gum base, so I can no longer recommend it. Fortunately, there’s Simply Gum, which is still completely plastic-free, and Glee Gum, which has recently reformulated its gum base to be plastic-free. I am leaving this post up for historical archive purposes (with […]
I’m not a big gum chewer. I can keep a stick of gum in my mouth for about five minutes, just enough time to suck all the flavor out, before I’m tired of chewing and starting to get that chewing gum headache. So it was no hardship to let go of chewing gum when I […]