Quotes About Environment

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.

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 features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability and resistance to degradation.

To catch the plastic, act like the plastic.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

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

We've become a plastic society.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

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

Yes, we absolutely need to eliminate the single-use plastic bag, but we don't have to eliminate the jobs of hardworking Californians to accomplish this goal.

I avoid using plastic bags.

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

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

We can get rid of all the plastic bags and plastic straws in the world - and we need to - but nothing is going to get better until we can make the people at the top see that there are changes to be made.

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

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

Truly, the only way to prove that we can rid the oceans of plastic is to actually go out there and deploy the world's first ocean-cleaning system.

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

If you're doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma's old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.

I say peace begins on your plate.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.

We're aiming to be the leading investment platform for the clean-energy economy.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.