Research Article
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 |
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