Plastic-filled sperm whale carcass washes ashore in Indonesia
Indonesian park officials on Tuesday said a sperm whale was found dead in a national park with nearly six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of plastic in its stomach.
"Although we can't say for sure that the death was caused by plastic, the whale had digested over 1,000 plastic pieces, including 115 plastic cups," the UK branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a tweet.
Other plastic waste found in the sperm whale's stomach included plastic bags, plastic bottles, flip-flops and a nylon sack.
In 2015, a study found that five Asian countries, including China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, accounted for nearly two-thirds of all plastic waste making its way to oceans.
According to environmental groups, roughly 100,000 marine creatures die annually due to entanglement in plastic. That figure does not include creatures that die from ingesting plastic.
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