Fishing Quote by Antonio Guterres

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our…

— Frans Timmermans

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

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan

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

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast,…

— Tim Winton

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

Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components…

— Edward Norton

The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

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

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

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

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

— Boyan Slat