SHAMPOO bottles with all-Chinese labels, drink containers and food wrappers with Thai inscriptions, instant noodle polystyrene cups with cooking instructions in Indonesian. These are some of the flotsam that mars the beauty of Langkawi’s geoparks.
Sea currents owing to the archipelago’s location between the Straits of Malacca and the Andaman Sea cause the parks to be the unfortunate recipients of rubbish dumped into the sea by neighbouring countries.
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