Plastics Quotes

“This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.”
― R.L. Stine, Welcome to Dead House

“Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz—industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers’ commodities.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“For years, the Pacific had been trying to get basic assistance in the synthetics field from the Reich. However, the big German chemical cartels, I. G. Farben in particular, had harbored their patents; had, in fact, created a world monopoly in plastics, especially in the developments of the polyesters. By this means, Reich trade had kept an edge over Pacific trade, and in technology the Reich was at least ten years ahead. The interplanetary rockets leaving Festung Europa consisted mainly of heat-resistant plastics, very light in weight, so hard they survived even major meteor impact. The Pacific had nothing of this sort; natural fibers such as wood were still used, and of course the ubiquitous pot metals.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Since 1963, LEGO bricks have been manufactured from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer - ABS copolymer for short - a plastic with a matte finish. It is very hard and robust - import criteria for a children's toy. Laboratories in Switzerland and Denmark regularly test the quality of the ABS. The plastic is distributed to factories as granules rather than in liquid form. These grains of plastic are heated up to 232ºC and converted into a molten mass. Injection moulding machines weighing up to 150 tonnes squeeze the viscous plastic mass into the desired injection moulds - of which there are 2,400 varieties. After seven seconds, the brick produced in this way has cooled down enough to be removed from the mould. The injection moulding method is so precise that out of every million elements produced, only about 18 units have to be rejected. Unsold bricks are converted back into granulates and recycled.”
― Christian Humberg, 50 Years of the Lego Brick

“I'm not out there suggesting that we should ban every plastic product. But there are some whose environmental costs exceed their utility, and the [plastic] bag is one of them.”
― Susan Freinkel, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

“Let’s spell things out plainly: It is beyond the scope of my understanding of how we are still, after everything we know, polluting our oceans with plastics, and worse. A whale just died after consuming more than 80 plastic bags. A whale!”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“For your temporary comfort, don't permanently kill the innocent life of all living beings on the earth, the plastic”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Attacks by orcas and dolphins are on the rise.
Why?
Not enough food? Ocean temperatures rising too quickly? I have another idea.
With the amount of plastic in the world's oceans the plastic will degenerate down into microplastics. Already these microplastics have entered all food chains and are to be found in soils, plants, animals and people.
What are these microplastics doing?
Well, we have no idea because not enough informed research has been carried out.
For me, I believe that the toxins contained within the plastics are causing neurological disorders in animals & people alike. It's causing more irrational behavior and aggression.
The orcas & dolphins are Apex predators, just as we are.
Coincidence?
Because man at present is doing some really irrational things.
Only time and more research will find out some truthful answers.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“a small poly bag lives longer than you.
Recycle Plastics.
Live longer than a Poly Bag.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Ban every form of plastic before plastic bans every form of life on the earth”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“No amount of talking will put fresh food on the table uncontaminated by human waste.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We can't clean up the Earth that we have already contaminated, but we sure as hell can take actions to make sure that we don't pollute this planet any more than it already is.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Microplastics will cause us so many problems, that wars will just seem like a small irritation.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Microplastics have the propensity to absorb chemicals and toxins very quickly and then pass them along to their hosts. Times and man are changing, but not for the better.”
― Anthony T, Hincks

“Microplastics and nano-plastics are found everywhere in us and the environment. Now microplastics have been found in sediments which have not seen human habitation for hundreds of years. So how did they get there?
If both microplastics and nano-plastics can invade all of our bodily systems through pores and filters within the body, the same can be said for the natural filtering systems of different rock layers.
No difference from us except we think rock is rock is less able to do it because it's denser. The trouble is that rain is so contaminated with these plastics that they are carried through the rain into the ground water and the subsequently through the different rock layers.
So, now we have contaminated groundwater, not only from chemicals, but also plastics as well. And as you all know, we drink 'fresh' ground water because it's so natural.
Well, maybe not so natural now.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Industry, including the production of plastics, fertilizers, steel, cement, and paper, accounts for more than 30 percent of world energy consumption.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization