Whale dies after swallowing 17 pounds of plastic

Whales and other wildlife are being killed by plastic in our oceans -- and massive corporations like McDonald’s are responsible. We have a plan to stop them, but we need your help. Whales and other wildlife are being killed by plastic in our oceans -- and massive corporations like McDonald’s are responsible. We have a plan to stop them, but we need your help. Will you chip in $1 to help save our oceans from plastic? [Donate $1 now]( {NAME}, Last week, a pilot whale died in Thailand with eight kilograms (17 pounds) of plastic garbage clogging its stomach. Unable to hunt or eat, the whale suffered a slow, painful death. This is not an isolated tragedy. Plastic is polluting our waters and killing marine life, and plastic garbage is reaching critical levels. In fact, humans have dumped more plastic into our oceans in the last ten years than in the previous century. And a big contributor to this plastic pollution is plastic straws from fast food. SumOfUs members are pressuring McDonald’s to stop its plastic pollution. We have already pushed the company to start phasing out plastic straws in the UK and Brussels, now we want to launch billboard ads calling on McDonald's to do the same in the U.S. Will you chip in $1 and help save our oceans from plastic? [Yes, I'll chip in $1 to call on McDonald's to stop using plastic straws.]( People across the world have become horribly dependent on plastic, and 91% of what we use isn't recycled. The U.S. throws out 500 million straws every day. Much of the plastic we throw away ends up in the ocean. Globally, we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the oceans every year. Plastics now covers 40% of the ocean's surface and one million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals die every year from plastic. The pilot whale in Thailand swallowed so much plastic that it couldn’t eat regular food and became sickened. Plastic cuts off the windpipes in turtles and birds and plastic bits clog the digestive system of fish. The U.N. has passed a non-binding resolution to reduce plastic waste, but it isn’t nearly enough. That’s why SumOfUs is campaigning to stop worldwide corporations from using plastic. We’ve already pushed McDonald’s to reduce its use of plastic straws, and now we’re going to convince the company to get rid of plastic straws in the U.S for good. If we’re going to stop the world’s plastic problem, it’s going to take all of us working together. [Will you chip in $1 to SumOfUs to help stop McDonald’s plastic straw use?]( Thanks for all that you do, Tom and the team at SumOfUs  --------------------------------------------------------------- More information: [Plastic bags jam stomach of dead pilot whale in Thailand,]( Yahoo! News, June 3, 2018 [22 Facts About Plastic Pollution (And 10 Things We Can Do About It)]( EcoWatch, April 7, 2014 [Straw Wars: The Fight to Rid the Oceans of Discarded Plastic]( National Geographic, February 13, 2018 [Choking the Oceans With Plastic]( New York Times, August 25, 2014   SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. This email was sent to {EMAIL}. | [Unsubscribe](