Frank Lautenberg 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.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

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.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

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.

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.

We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

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

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've become a plastic society.

The sea is the universal sewer.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.

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.

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

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

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

If the rest of the world aspires to our way of life ... we'll bury ourselves in waste.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

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

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

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario.