Indonesia: dead whale had 1,000 pieces of plastic in stomach
by Associated Press in Jakarta from on (#43AM0)
Sperm whale washed up in Sulawesi had flip-flops, bottles, bags and 115 drinking cups in its stomach
A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including flip-flops and 115 drinking cups, a park official has said, causing concern among environmentalists and government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting countries.
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