According to Greenpeace, UK, an estimated 12.7 million tonnes of plastic finds its way in our oceans each year. That’s around a truckload of plastic trash a minute. 

Can you imagine swallowing plastic? Can you imagine struggling to find food and fresh air but ending up eating plastic and dying instead? Do you really not know where I am going with this?

Not long ago, a sperm whale died on a Spanish beach after eating 29 kg of plastic. And now, a pilot whale has been found dead off southern Thailand with 80 bags of plastic.

Thai marine officials said that the whale vomited five plastic bags in a failed attempt by conservationists to save the mammal in a canal in Songkhla province.

The small male pilot whale was discovered as sick and unable to swim in the Na Thap Canal last Monday. Officials said that they used boats to help it float and even erected a sunshade for the mammal. They nursed the whale for an entire week but it later died on Friday afternoon. 

It was the bags that weighed around 8kg that made it impossible for the whale to eat food, said a marine expert.

Thailand is one of the biggest users of plastic bags. Its government had said last month that it was considering a levy on them. Well, given the increase in marine deaths, it's time to impose a complete ban on plastic. And not just in Thailand - every country should now put an end to plastic if they want planet earth to survive.

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