A dead whale that washed up on the coast east of Davao City in the Philippines had 40kg of plastic bags in its stomach, according to workers at D’Bone Collector Museum who recovered the Cuvier’s beaked whale on March 15, 2019. A 2015 report on plastic pollution by the Ocean Conservancy charity and the McKinsey Centre for Business and Environment ranked the Philippines as the third-largest source of plastic waste that ends up in the oceans, behind two other Asian nations: China and Indonesia.
