Dead whale's stomach clogged with plasticAround 30 plastic bags were found clogging up the stomach of a 6 metre whale that was put down in Norway last week after failed attempts to rescue it. UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN/FACEBOOK The distressed animal was shot after several failed attempts to chase it back to deeper waters. "It wasn't like it (the plastic) was in just a part of the stomach; it filled up the whole space," said zoologist Terje Lislevand. Lislevand said the longest of the plastic items found in Thursday's (Friday's NZT) autopsy stretched more than two metres, with the items coming from several countries. Experts have long warned that millions of tons of plastic pollution was floating in the northern Pacific Ocean and killing vast numbers of animals.

Source: Stuff February 03, 2017 20:26 UTC