Become Quote by Michaela Strachan

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

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

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

— 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

Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's…

— Boyan Slat

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

— Boyan Slat

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

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

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

— Bette Midler

The plastic straw bans, that's not what's creating the problem in the oceans. That's a drop in the bucket, as far as the amount…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

Look at climate change. That's a bigger problem than plastic, but we can't all focus on that and forget about plastic - that isn't…

— Boyan Slat