A study of whales and dolphins that have washed up dead in Greece over a 20-year period finds alarmingly high levels of plastic trash in the animals' stomachs, which can condemn them to a slow and painful death.
A study of whales and dolphins that have washed up dead in Greece over a 20-year period has found alarmingly high levels of plastic trash — mostly bags — in the animals' stomachs, which can condemn them to a slow and painful death.
The study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, which organizers say was the first on such a scale in the Mediterranean, found that sperm whales were also the species worst affected by plastic ingestion. Six out of ten specimens were found to have consumed plastics according to Alexandros Frantzis, scientific director of the Athens-based Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute that conducted the research.
In a separate incident outside the scope of the Greek study, an 8-meter pregnant sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia in March with 22 kilograms of plastic in its stomach.
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