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Deer found dead in Thailand with plastic bags and underwear in stomach🖤😔😢😢
The animal had 7kg of rubbish in its stomach including coffee grounds, noodle packaging and towels #ClimateAction @WeDontHaveTime #ForNature

A deer has been found dead in Thailand after swallowing 7kg (15lb) of plastic bags and other rubbish, raising the alarm on littering in the country’s waters and forests.

The south-east Asian country is one of the world’s largest consumers of plastic,

with Thais using up to 3,000 single-use plastic bags each per year, whether for wrapping street food, takeaway coffee or packing groceries.Marine animals like turtles and dugongs have died in its waste-choked waters,

and autopsies have found that plastic in the stomach lining
contributed to their deaths.

Officials said a 10-year-old deer was found dead in a national park in Nan province, around 630km (390 miles) north of capital Bangkok.

An autopsy discovered “plastic bags in the stomach, which is one of the causes of his death”, said Kriangsak Thanompun, director of the protected region in the Khun Sathan national park.

The bags contained coffee grounds, instant noodle packaging, garbage bags, towels and also underwear, according to photos provided by the national park.

Several major retailers – including the operator of the ubiquitous 7-Eleven convenience stores – have pledged to stop handing out single-use plastic bags by January next year.