47 Quotes About Plastic

But somewhere before the Renaissance they realized that it was impossible to live without love. Thus they created a new strand. The first of the synthetic emotions to ever be created. It opened up the possibility to recreate anything, including forging creation. We were on the path to becoming plastic gods.

Plastic bottles of Gatorade were given free to very high altitude workers on Mauna Kea and they were advised to drink it while on the summit.

It was common to drink from plastic bottles and cans in high altitude astronomy.

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

For all the environmental troubles single-use shopping bags cause, the much greater impacts are in what they contain. reducing the human footprint means addressing fundamentally unsustainable habits of food consumption, such as expecting strawberries in the depths of winter or buying of seafood that are being fished to the brink of extinction.

Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use.

How is the ocean not enraged, swelling—how is it not furious with grief:we have drowned it in plastic,its waves are no longer its own. How does it survive this,blistered by our carelessness?We are drops of the ocean:why can’t we see this?—when plastic outnumbers fish

Whenever he sat in the swingset it got tangled up. He said it was demons in the steel that were drawn to the sweat & sorrow of the steelworkers across the generations. Plastic doesn't have those sorts of problems yet, he said.

in these shitty plastic days ...