“The choice had 40 kilos of plastic in the stomach”

“A choice that wrapped up on land in the Philippines had 40 kilos of plastic waste in the stomach. The animal died of starvation because it could not eat because of the stomach contents, according to the Darrell Blatchley, head to a natural history museum in the city of Davao.”

“– It is horrible and heartbreaking. We have obducerat 61 dolphins and whales in the last ten years, and this is the largest amount of plastic we’ve seen, ” he says.”

“The near five-metre long whale beached in Mabini in western Philippines on Friday. It was starved and weak, and therefore could not swim in the way when you tried to get out in deep water. At autopsy found, among other things, plastic bags and rissäckar.”

“the Philippines has organizations have been singled out as one of the countries in the world that clutter up most in the oceans. The background is the high consumption of disposable plastics in the country, including around 60 billion bags per year, according to a report from the environmental organization Gaia.”