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Asian elephants are ingesting large amounts of plastic from landfills in India

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Consumption of large amounts of plastic waste has killed about 20 elephants in Sri Lanka in the past eight years. Image: Unsplash/paweldotio

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
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