Pregnant whale washed up in Italian tourist spot had 22 kilograms of plastic in its stomach<br /><br />The carcass of a pregnant sperm whale that washed up in Sardinia, Italy, last week had 22 kilograms (49 pounds) of plastic in its stomach, and was carrying a dead fetus, the country's environment minister and a marine life non-profit organization said.<br /><br />Luca Bittau, president of the SeaMe group, told CNN the beached mammal's remains contained "garbage bags ... fishing nets, lines, tubes, the bag of a washing machine liquid still identifiable, with brand and barcode ... and other objects no longer identifiable."<br />"She was pregnant and had almost certainly aborted before (she) beached," he said. "The fetus was in an advanced state of composition."<br />
