Would you like some plastic with your fries?

I blogged in the past about the Pacific Gyre, an immense island of plastic garbage that gets caught by the currents of the Pacific Ocean, swirling forever while endangering the sea life that comes into contact with it.
Now the stomach of a dead whale that washed ashore has revealed how deadly our carelessness can be for unassuming animals.
From Treehugger:

According to Cascadia Research Collective, 50 gallons of stomach contents were sorted through. Most of it was real food - algae and other bits common to a gray whale diet - but also included were more than 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, sweat pants, plastic pieces, duct tape, and a golf ball.

And all sorts of animals are affected by this problem, like this bird, whose remains were photographed as evidence of what we’re doing to the environment:

See a slideshow of more birds here.