47 Quotes About Plastic

Empty plastic water bottles at near seal level would become pressurized by the time we reached the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and empty plastic water bottles at the summit would become crushed by the time we were near sea level.

We kill 100 million [sharks] yearly. By 2050 we will have filled the sea with more plastics than fish.

The plastic your people made was strong stuff. We find so much of it now - I wonder if it will outlast us entirely.

I understand why there's still so much plastic in the world, still pale fragments of who-know-what-it-once-was washing up on the beaches, or just junk slowly weathering away like all the seats in the stadium. If you'd tried to burn it all on a rubbish heap, you'd have choked the world to death.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

There were waves of genocide that overcame indigenous populations of Oceania and do we have a library of books or films to tell our story? No. We have tourist hula shows and commercials where the “natives” tend to tourists like indentured servants with plastic, lifeless smiles. It’s not such a charming picture, is it? The truth is ugly, but so is ignorance or denial of such atrocities and pain.

Remember people you may not be plastic...but you are fantastic! never forget that

Plastic should be a high value material... [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it--I think that's not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)

For your temporary comfort, don't permanently kill the innocent life of all living beings on the earth, the plastic