Action Quote by Ralph Northam

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work,…

— 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

We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out…

— Barack Obama

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

— Gale Norton

The Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to…

— Martin Luther King III

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

As a large producer of solid waste, the Commonwealth must lead by example and transition away from single-use disposable plastics to create a cleaner,…

— Ralph Northam

We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter…

— Jose Angel Gurria

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

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for…

— Carl Safina

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

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

— Greg Lynn