gutenburg Earlier this month, a 22 foot-long sperm whale washed ashore in Wales. In May, the carcass of a young sperm whale was found in Italy. In April, a pregnant sperm whale washed up on a beach in Sardinia. And recently, a sperm whale beached on a Scottish island. What connects the deaths of these marine mammals is plastic debris in their stomach. Pictures of the juvenile male whale that washed ashore on a Scottish island with around 100 kilograms (220 pounds) debris in its stomach have not only left activists disturbed but netizens have also expressed anguish over the extent of damage that plastic waste has done to the marine world. Pictures of the sperm whale, which died at the Seilebost beach on the Isle of Harris, UK, were shared on the Facebook page of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) - an organisation that collates data on stranded marine animals around Scotland - along with the trash that was removed from its stomach.
