Quotes About Plastic

A Ph.D. big-shot professor. A mother who is a genius. And you shit in plastic bags. Unbelievable

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Banning plastic bags so that people use paper bags or imported reusable bags that will end up in local landfills soon thereafter is not the only solution to our plastic bag challenge.

I do think we're at a point in our history where almost all of the big, grand, challenges faced by the human race are those that demand a scientific solution: climate change; access to clean water; over-crowding; plastic waste.

Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.

Worsely: You know what you were saying about a plastic bag. Suppose I put a plastic bag around my head and tied it tightly round the neck. What could possibly go wrong? Clegg: Some of them nowadays has safety holes. Worsely: Not all. I would have a look

When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel.

The plastic your people made was strong stuff. We find so much of it now - I wonder if it will outlast us entirely.

I understand why there's still so much plastic in the world, still pale fragments of who-know-what-it-once-was washing up on the beaches, or just junk slowly weathering away like all the seats in the stadium. If you'd tried to burn it all on a rubbish heap, you'd have choked the world to death.

she'd had enough face-tightening medical procedures to appear perpetually astonished.

En toch. 'Opgroeien in deze hemel op aarde was als leven in een plastic zak,' schreef hij. 'Er heerste een verstikkend gevoel van opsluiting, alsof je voortdurend je eigen lucht inademde. Door te veel orde en te weinig risico's werd het leven benauwd en triviaal – en dat terwijl dit een wereld van vrijheid en ongekende kansen heette te zijn.

Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!

You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that's good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there's simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.

She's as plastic as you are! I'm telling you, it's a bad idea. If the two of you have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisherprice stamped on their butts!

Mooooon!" said the Ogre. "Tranquility …" Then he pointed at the full moon. "Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of tranquility." Then he added, "It's made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger." Mikey sighed. "What's his story?" the wraith asked. "He's chocolate," Mikey said.

If you're a guy, I'm sure you already know that their most famous product is that litle plastic stariner at the bototm of urinals, and you probably still laugh every time you look down and see PISHER written in happy bold letters, like maybe it was to remind you why you were standing there.

Storm fronts that linger upon the horizon; white plastic places where every thought dies in; swabbies and cocktails and parrots' bright wings; these are a few of his least-favorite things.

puede ser impreso en 3-D con el mismo coste que un simple bloque de plástico. Al ordenador no le importa cuántos cálculos ha de hacer. 3. La flexibilidad es gratuita. Para cambiar un producto una vez iniciada la producción, sólo se necesita cambiar el código de instrucciones. La máquina sigue siendo la misma.

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)

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.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.