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“Elephants dying from eating plastic waste”

By Shin In-ho | 기사입력 2023/02/05 [08:52]

“Elephants dying from eating plastic waste”

By Shin In-ho | 입력 : 2023/02/05 [08:52]

 


About 20 elephants have died over the last eight years after consuming plastic trash in the dump in Pallakkadu village in Ampara district, about 210 kilometers east of the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

Examinations of the dead animals showed they had swallowed large amounts of nondegradable plastic that is found in the garbage dump, wildlife veterinarian Nihal Pushpakumara said. “Polythene, food wrappers, plastic, other non-digestibles and water were the only things we could see in the post mortems. The normal food that elephants eat and digest was not evident,” he added.

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