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Whale dies with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach

This past weekend a young whale washed up on Mindanao Island in the Philippines, dead from plastic-induced ‘gastric shock.’ When a team of researchers from the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City performed an autopsy, they pulled out a shocking 40 kilograms of plastic from the whale’s stomach. 40 kilos of plastic bags, including 16 rice sacks, 4 banana plantation style bags and multiple shopping bags. This is not isolated case.

— source treehugger.com | Mar 19, 2019

please reduce plastic use.

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