Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches

Table 3

Ten most numerous objects (item/km) found and BDI at the study sites.

Objects	Beach study sites
	Pasir Pandak	Temasya	Tg. Aru	Kosuhoi	Saujana
Clear plastic bottles	189	118	139	244	45
Plastic fragments	66	84	165	93	113
Plastic food wrapper	160	108	128	61	64
Colored plastic bottles	130	58	85	132	8
Plastic (others)	68	33	70	133	99
Cups	52	72	90	64	71
Bottle caps	48	57	101	77	48
Food wrappers	36	59	120	56	58
Packaging	73	25	38	83	39
Cardboard cartons	30	41	54	50	33
BDI (item/km)	657	790	1,208	1,263	731