Ben Fogle Quotes

On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It's mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We've found everything.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

If they [the Federal government] can't handle the [toxic] waste, they shouldn't generate it.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

Our beaches should not be garbage dumps. Our oceans must not be cesspools.

The city of gardens [New Delhi] has become the city of garbage.

We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late…. The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization.

In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under 9 feet of manure.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flushed only when the U-boat was on the surface or at shallow depths, lest the undersea pressure blow material back into the vessel.

The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess.

Unmanageable waste has turned into a worldwide crisis. No matter how much local authorities do, no matter the level of public cooperation, no matter how much is recycled, the problem continues to grow.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether that was true.

I've been working tirelessly in the House to help ensure Nevada does not become a dumping ground for the rest of the nation's nuclear waste, and I will continue that fight in the Senate.

The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage.

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.