Boyan Slat Quotes

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

If children knew what the effects are of using single-use plastic straws for drinking sodas or whatever, they might reconsider and use paper straws or no straws at all.

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

Our beaches should not be garbage dumps. Our oceans must not be cesspools.

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

How many millions of straws do we use every day across Europe? I would have people not use plastic straws any more.

To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn't go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.

The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage.

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

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.