{"id":8624,"date":"2018-11-21T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T21:59:31","slug":"signalled-virtue-fails-to-save-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8624\/","title":{"rendered":"Signalled virtue fails to save whale"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how did this<\/a> happen, then?<\/p>\n

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A dead sperm whale that washed ashore in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 6kg (13 lbs) of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials say.<\/p>\n

Items found included 115 drinking cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and two flip-flops.<\/p>\n

The carcass of the 9.5m (31ft) mammal was found in waters near Kapota Island in the Wakatobi National Park late on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought carrier bags had been banned from French supermarkets and bars in London no longer provide drinking straws, so how come we have a dead whale in Indonesia? Ah yeah:<\/p>\n

Five Asian nations – China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand – account for up to 60% of the plastic waste that ends up in oceans, according to a 2015 report by environmental campaigner Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The European Parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans.<\/p>\n

MEPs backed a ban on plastic cutlery and plates, cotton buds, straws, drink-stirrers and balloon sticks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Next up: hosepipe bans in Surrey to prevent drought in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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