Research Article
Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches
Table 4
Ten most numerous objects (item/vessel) found and SGI at the study ports.
| Objects | Study port | Kuching | Bintulu | Kota Kinabalu | Sandakan | Klang |
| Clear plastic bottles | 42 | 51 | 56 | 72 | 55 | Plastic food wrapper | 26 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 18 | Rubber (others) | 16 | 22 | 22 | 15 | 19 | Plastic fragments | 23 | 12 | 24 | 18 | 16 | Aluminum cans | 13 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 10 | Oil rags | 9 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 7 | Colored plastic bottles | 6 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 11 | Cardboard cartons | 7 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | Tin cans | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | Glass bottles | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| SGI (item/vessel) | 163 | 168 | 198 | 194 | 171 |
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