For the second time in two weeks, a whale has washed up dead with plastic packed inside its stomach, wildlife officials said. In the latest grisly discovery, off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, late last week, there were roughly 49 pounds of plastic inside the female sperm whale, along with a dead fetus. The trash included garbage bags, fishing nets and lines, tubes, and a bag of washing machine liquid.
On March 16, people in the Philippines made a similar discovery, finding a dead whale that had 88 pounds of plastic inside its stomach. The whale had died from starvation and dehydration from all the junk it had swallowed.
These two recent discoveries mirror similar whale deaths in Indonesia in November, in Thailand last June, and in Spain last April.
— source huffingtonpost.in | 02/04/2019