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Environment Report: The Whales San Diego Buried in Trash

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36 dead whales were documented along San Diego County shores between 2014 and 2023. Eight of those made their grave in a landfill. The eight landfilled whales likely weighed 200 tons combined. That's as much garbage as 200 Californians generate in one year. For San Diego, a city that already missed its goal of diverting 75 percent of its waste from the dump by 2020, burying whales in the landfill is a big swing and a miss.

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Environment Report: The Whales San Diego Buried in Trash

Thirty-six. That’s how many dead whales the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration documented along San Diego County shores between 2014 and 2023. Eight of those made their grave in a landfill. To scientists studying the health of deep ocean environments, a dead whale doesn’t belong in the trash. Sinking whale bodies sprout and feed instant ecosystems, called “whale falls,” when their carcasses reach the abyssal, lightless sea bottom…

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