Could a Chewing Gum Reduce COVID-19 Spread? Researchers Believe It Can

The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently needs a new strategy to curb the vast amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans, a new report submitted to the federal government has found.

Deluge of plastic waste’: US is world’s biggest plastic polluter

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working to create a special chewing gum that could help reduce the spread of COVID-19 by "trapping" the virus so a person can't transmit it to someone else.