**4. Results**

Microplastics were found in all 24 samples taken from the four different beaches Dammam, Jubail, Khafji, and Salwa (**Table 1**). A total of 586 particles were extracted


### *Microplastic Contaminants in the Sediment of the East Coast of Saudi Arabia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.109019*


**Table 1.** *Detailed results of all of the samples analyzed for the microplastic study.*

#### *Advances and Challenges in Microplastics*
