Most common trash in coastal clean-up: Cigarette butts, plastic bottles and bags

Some of the participants in Desaru. - Photo credit - Coca-Cola

PETALING JAYA: Plastic bottles, cigarette butts and plastic bags – these are the three most common items found during a mass clean-up of Malaysia’s beaches last weekend.

Altogether 30,248 plastic bottles, 20,299 cigarette butts – which contain plastic filters – and 12,055 plastic grocery bags were picked up during the event on Sept 22, organised in conjunction with the world’s biggest annual volunteer effort to protect the oceans.