Boyan Slat Quotes

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

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

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

We've become a plastic society.

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

The sea is the universal sewer.

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

In order to produce enough gold to create a wedding band, … a mine would have to extract tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds of ore. … each mine produces thousands of tons of waste rock and other materials. The end result is that mines across the West create millions of tons of waste. This waste is usually stored on the earth's surface in vast piles that may be hundreds of feet high and cover an area the size of several football fields.

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

Plastic waste is now found in the most remote areas of the planet. It kills marine life and is doing major harm to communities that depend on fishing and tourism.

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.

To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

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.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.