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The dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach, including drinking cups and flip-flops / Muhammad Irpan Sejati Tassakka/AP

By James Morris
20 November 2018

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A dead whale has washed ashore with a lump of rubbish in its stomach containing more than 1,000 plastic pieces.

Rescuers found the rotting carcass of the 31-foot sperm whale in the Sulawesi province of Indonesia.

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The piles of trash in its stomach, weighing 13 pounds, included 115 plastic drinking cups, two flip-flops, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic
bags, a nylon sack and more than 1,000 further plastic pieces.

As the carcass was buried on Tuesday, environmental campaigners condemned “throwaway culture” which led to its suffering.

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Greenpeace said the discovery of the whale was a 'distress signal' on plastic rubbish / AP

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Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner of London charity Greenpeace UK, said: “If nature had a distress signal to warn us that it can't
take any more of our plastic rubbish, it would look like this: a dead whale with 1,000 pieces of plastic in its stomach.

“Our throwaway culture has turned whales' guts into dustbins for our plastic waste. And the global plastic contamination doesn't end
there. This material is already in the food we eat, the water we drink, and inevitably in our bodies too. It's clear that we can't go on like
this.

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