Frans Timmermans Quotes

We've become a plastic society.

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.

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.

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

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

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.

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.

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.

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

We can no longer throw our waste away because there is no away.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

Solution to pollution by dilution is fallacious.