Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches

Table 7

Total objects (item/vessel) origins found at ship survey.

Objects	Kuching		Bintulu		Kota Kinabalu		Sandakan		Klang
	L	F	L	F	L	F	L	F	L	F
Clear plastic bottles	9	26	4	35	10	30	5	44	10	29
Aluminum cans	1	77	0	5	0	8	2	7	1	3
Food wrappers	2	21	2	9	2	12	1	10	1	7
Cardboard cartons	1	2	1	2	0	4	0	2	0	2
Glass bottles	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1
Tin cans	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1
Product wrappers	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colored plastic bottles	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aerosol cans	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Plastic oil bottles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	13	130	7	53	12	56	9	66	12	42

L: local origin (or Malaysia) and F: foreign origin.