Whales keep eating plastic and dying. This one’s stomach had 88 pounds of calcifying trash. - News Summed Up

Whales keep eating plastic and dying. This one’s stomach had 88 pounds of calcifying trash.


Darrell Blatchley, director and founder of D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao, on March 16. Darrell Blatchley, director and founder of D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao, on March 16. (Mary Gay Blatchley/Mary Gay Blatchley)Darrell Blatchley shows more plastic waste found in the dead whale's stomach. Blatchley said the amount inside the young Cuvier’s beaked whale was the “most plastic” he has ever seen in a whale. Darrell Blatchley shows plastic waste found in a Cuvier's beaked whale in the Philippines.


Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 18:45 UTC



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