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Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches

Marine debris is widely distributed at the coastal area of the global oceans; however, shipborne garbage source studies are still lacking to document the pollution in Malaysia Territorial Water. Thus, this study has adopted a standard method of beach marine debris survey at five beaches and inspecte...

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Autores principales: Mobilik, Julyus-Melvin, Ling, Teck-Yee, Husain, Mohd-Lokman, Hassan, Ruhana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27819020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5126951
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author Mobilik, Julyus-Melvin
Ling, Teck-Yee
Husain, Mohd-Lokman
Hassan, Ruhana
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description Marine debris is widely distributed at the coastal area of the global oceans; however, shipborne garbage source studies are still lacking to document the pollution in Malaysia Territorial Water. Thus, this study has adopted a standard method of beach marine debris survey at five beaches and inspected 115 vessels to assess the type and amount of debris from shipping source stranded on the beach. This study found that vessel visiting Malaysian ports observed the MARPOL 73/78 Annex V requirements; however, identified objects from shipping activity (1.3%; 2 items/km) found on the beaches indicate that there are vessels disposing of garbage illegally at sea. Therefore, there is a need to promote the use of biodegradable material and introduce environmental education to increase awareness on the vessel.
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spelling pubmed-50805202016-11-06 Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches Mobilik, Julyus-Melvin Ling, Teck-Yee Husain, Mohd-Lokman Hassan, Ruhana ScientificWorldJournal Research Article Marine debris is widely distributed at the coastal area of the global oceans; however, shipborne garbage source studies are still lacking to document the pollution in Malaysia Territorial Water. Thus, this study has adopted a standard method of beach marine debris survey at five beaches and inspected 115 vessels to assess the type and amount of debris from shipping source stranded on the beach. This study found that vessel visiting Malaysian ports observed the MARPOL 73/78 Annex V requirements; however, identified objects from shipping activity (1.3%; 2 items/km) found on the beaches indicate that there are vessels disposing of garbage illegally at sea. Therefore, there is a need to promote the use of biodegradable material and introduce environmental education to increase awareness on the vessel. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5080520/ /pubmed/27819020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5126951 Text en Copyright © 2016 Julyus-Melvin Mobilik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Type and Quantity of Shipborne Garbage at Selected Tropical Beaches
title_sort type and quantity of shipborne garbage at selected tropical beaches
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5126951
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