Interesting. Always thought chewing gum was more like when you made “plastic” out of the caesin in milk.
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 14 hours agoNah corporations really don’t give a shit at all, like all chewing gum is literally just plastic too and sheds tons of microplastics into your mouth as you chew it.
vice.com/…/rethink-chewing-gum-habit-essentially-…
Plastic is an organic material though, so your assumption was correct.
T156@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 hours ago
You can buy chewing gum made from natural materials but it’s not the norm. Most chewing gum is made from mineral oil.
moody@lemmings.world 11 hours ago
The difference is in the definition or organic. When the average person thinks organic, they mean something that is or used to be alive. When a scientist think organic, they’re talking about carbon compounds.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Plastic are made from fossil fuels which are from primordial plants. So still organic according to your definition. Just a few hundred million years since it was alive.