George W. Bush Quotes

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.

The very survival of the human species depends upon the maintenance of an ocean clean and alive.... The ocean is our planet's life belt.

On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It's mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We've found everything.

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.

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

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore,, Currents of debris upon my breast.

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

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is way too rough, the issue of bycatch - 'plastic is too big, plastic is too small.'

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they're plastic bags. I'm always that guy that will take it into the shore.

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

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

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Over the last several decades, human activity have so altered the basic chemistry of the seas that they are now experiencing evolution in reverse to the barren primeval waters of hundreds of millions of years ago.