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Pregnant Whale With 50 Pounds Of Plastic In Its Stomach Washes Up On Shore

Tourists at an Italian beach discovered quite the scene after finding a pregnant sperm whale that ended up having a large amount of plastic waste in its stomach. The scene further reminds us of a waste problem that needs to be improved at a faster rate.

The carcass of a pregnant sperm whale that washed up in Sardinia, Italy, last week had 22 kilograms (49 pounds) of plastic in its stomach, and was carrying a dead fetus, the country’s environment minister and a marine life non-profit organization said.

Luca Bittau, president of the SeaMe group, told CNN the beached mammal’s remains contained “garbage bags … fishing nets, lines, tubes, the bag of a washing machine liquid still identifiable, with brand and barcode … and other objects no longer identifiable.”

“She was pregnant and had almost certainly aborted before (she) beached,” he said. “The fetus was in an advanced state of composition.”

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