Quotes
Plastic is designed to last forever, most of it is used one time only.
Charles Moore
There is no such thing as biodegradation of petroleum based manufactured plastic.
Charles Moore
A wasted sea is our wasted future.
Marcus Eriksen, Executive Director 5 Gyres Institute
Hoe krijgen we het toch voor elkaar om er met zijn allen zo’n soep van te maken?!
H.K.H. Prinses Irene, Ambassadrice Dolphin Fund
Wat de Plastic Soep betreft, is Cruijffs uitspraak: ‘Je gaat het pas zien als je het door hebt’, maar al te waar.
Jesse Goossens, auteur van het boek Plastic Soep
We need a new SOS: Save Our Seas.
Robert Zoellick, president Wereldbank
Fifty years ago, the single-use plastic bag was almost unheard of - now we use them for a few minutes and they pollute our environment for decades.
Janez Potocnik, EU Commissaris voor Milieu
Seeing a parent albatross gagging up a toothbrush changed my worldview. (...) No matter what coordinates you choose, from waters polar, to solar coral reefs, to the remotest turquoise atoll – no place, no creature remains apart from you and me.
Carl Safina, auteur van Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival (2002), p. 279.
In a high-tech era of radiation, carcinogenic chemicals, and human-induced climate change, the problem of the trash produced by ocean-going vessels or litter swept out to sea must seem old-fashioned by comparison. (...) Regrettably, that perception is wrong.
Daniel Inouye (United States Senator van Hawaii), ‘Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions’.
