Bucket Quote by Andrew R. Wheeler

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

Thanks to David Attenborough and 'Blue Planet 2,' we've become aware of the damage to our oceans from plastic pollution. We now know to…

— Barry Gardiner

We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There…

— Ed Begley, Jr

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…

— Boyan Slat

Ocean plastic in particular has captured the public imagination, and seems to be a jumping-off point for several companies developing plastic alternatives, both in…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

— David Suzuki

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

— Boyan Slat

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

— Boyan Slat

I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic…

— Edward Norton

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered…

— Boyan Slat

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…

— Kevin Bacon

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

— Noam Chomsky