Drills Quote by Phil Gingrey

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

— Boyan Slat

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that…

— Josh Fox

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

— Boyan Slat

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

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

When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is…

— Boyan Slat

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably…

— Carl Safina

Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up…

— Jack Johnson

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life…

— Sigourney Weaver

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 tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

— David R. Brower

Plastic has become such a major problem in our oceans.

— Michaela Strachan