Researchers on a Scottish island found disturbing items during a necropsy of a juvenile sperm whale: 220 pounds of land and sea debris.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/02/dead-sperm-whale-had-pounds-garbage-its-stomach-including-rope-plastic-gloves/?outputType=amp

Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know.

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2019/12/whales-eating-plastic-pollution

Now another sea creature is discovering the devastating effects of plastic pollution: hermit crabs. Garbage that has washed ashore has killed more than half a million hermit crabs on remote islands.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/plastic-pollution-has-killed-half-a-million-hermit-crabs-that-confused-trash-for-shells/

If we keep going at this rate, it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050.

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/sea-creatures-choking-plastic-bottled-drink_uk_5de8dbd6e4b0913e6f8ba3a8/

An amateur photographer has captured an image of a young pup lounging next to a glass Starbucks bottle in the midst of the UK grey pup season in what some say highlights the pervasiveness of human rubbish problems around the world.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/viral-image-shows-grey-seal-pup-lounging-with-a-starbucks-bottle/amp.html