Items made from recycled plastic Wray, Lancaster. 26th April, 2019. Preparations underway at the Scarecrow Festival as Tara Ablett (MR) a teaching assistant from Melling school makes last minute adjustments to a whale's tail fin flukes, an exhibit made by children from the school using plastics wrapping and containers, recycled drinks container, reused, upcycled plastic beverage coloured drink bottles all used to create animal sculpture. The 2019 theme, chosen by the local school, is “Evolution: Extinct, Endangered, Existing”
A young whale that washed up in the Philippines died from “gastric shock” after ingesting 40kg of plastic bags. Marine biologists and volunteers from the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, in the Philippine island of Mindanao, were shocked to discover the brutal cause of death for the young Cuvier’s beaked whale, which washed ashore on Saturday. Whale dies from eating more than 80 plastic bags Read more In a damning statement on their Facebook page, the museum said they uncovered “40 kilos of plastic bags, including 16 rice sacks. 4 banana plantation style bags and multiple shopping bags” in the whale’s stomach after conducting an autopsy. Images from the autopsy showed endless piles of rubbish being extracted from the inside of the animal, which was said to have died from “gastric shock” after ingesting all the plastic.
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