Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches

Table 8

Number of objects (number, items) origins found at beach and ship surveys.

Objects	Beach survey		Ship survey
	Local	Foreign	Local	Foreign
Clear plastic bottles	1,727	142	925	3,591
Food wrappers	729	221	189	1,336
Aluminum cans	397	240	84	2,383
Cardboard cartons	393	90	45	240
Colored plastic bottles	86	31	2	40
Glass bottles	68	11	11	111
Product wrapper	48	16	0	76
Tin cans	20	5	21	91
Aerosol cans	13	2	0	11
Plastic oil bottles	12	5	0	2
Medicine	2	8	0	0
Metal (others)	2	2	0	0
Plastic (others)	0	1	0	0
Plastic container	3,497	774	0	0
Total	1,727	142	1,277	7,881