This is the "largest amount of plastic ever seen in a whale". From sacks used to pack rice to numerous shopping bags. The harrowing photos launch yet another alarm "Stop plastic pollution"
The list, like the photos, is heartbreaking: 16 bags used to pack rice, numerous shopping bags, bottles and even a tray. A total of 40 kilos of plastic in the stomach of a Cuvier beaked whale found dead in the Philippines. This was reported by researchers from the D'Bone Collector Museum, who recovered the carcass of the cetacean earlier this month in the waters east of Davao City.
In a Facebook post, the BBC reports online today, the researchers wrote that it is the amount of plastic "the largest ever seen in a whale". The museum has announced that in the coming days it will publish online the complete list of objects found in the whale's carcass.
It is yet another terrible and macabre postcard, highlights Giovanni D'Agata, president of the "Rights Desk", which comes from an ocean increasingly devastated by plastic pollution: it will be the autopsy that will have to decree exactly how the whale died , but the impressive amount of waste found inside suggests the complicity of the ingested material in the death of the cetacean. Moreover, in Asia the findings of this type are beginning to become quite common. The Philippines alone is one of the nations on the Asian continent that contributes the most to ocean pollution, according to Ocean Conservancy.