Inspiring quotes on plastic for motivation
As the last post on Plastic-Free July, we will leave you with various quotes on plastic. Learn and make a change!
We covered Plastic-Free July for the whole month and we hope that you found something useful you can apply in your life. There is always so much to do, but usually so little time. But if we find some dedication to start, then the change will happen. You just have to make a decision. Today’s post is a selection of quotes to motivate you to get up and start implementing the knowledge into action.
I was inspired by DiverBliss.com for this list. She had put together a wonderful selection of inspiring quotes. Some of them are really simple, but most of them are thought-provoking and show you the real picture. We can always do something, so this is your chance to be inspired now.
- “If we pollute the air, water, and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”– Dr. David Suzuki
2. “There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” – Annie Leonard, creator of film documentary The Story of Stuff
3. “It cannot be right to manufacture billions of objects that are used for a matter of minutes, and then are with us for centuries.”– Roz Savage
4. “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”– Saint Mother Teresa
5. “One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it’s one of the stupidest ideas in the world.”– Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
6. “For all the environmental troubles single-use shopping bags cause, the much greater impacts are in what they contain. Reducing the human footprint means addressing fundamentally unsustainable habits of food consumption, such as expecting strawberries in the depths of winter or buying of seafood that are being fished to the brink of extinction.”– Susan Freinkel, author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
7. “Forget bottled water; tap water is just as good! Pour it into a reusable water bottle, and always have fresh water on the go without wasting plastic.”– Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
8. “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. – Zac Goldsmith
9. “When plastics do break down, they don’t biodegrade; rather, they break into increasingly smaller pieces, many of which end up in the oceans as microplastics that harm aquatic life and birds.”– Dr. David Suzuki
10. “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.”– Kevin Bacon, actor
11. “Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.”– Frances Beinecke, author of The World We Create: A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril
12. “You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are.”– Ian Rankin, author of several crime novels
13. “I often struggle to find words that will communicate the vastness of the Pacific Ocean to people who have never been to sea. Yet as I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic.”– Captain Charles Moore, author of Plastic Ocean
14. “Waste isn’t waste until we waste it.”– Will.I.Am, musician
15. “Plastic will be the main ingredient of all our grandchildren’s recipes.”–Anthony T. Hincks
16. “Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of a man to reform and transform waste.”– Patti Smith
17. “Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.”– Dr. David Suzuki
18. “I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, ‘Paper or plastic?’ We should be saying, ‘Neither one.’ We should have our own cloth bags.”–Woody Harrelson
19. “The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.”– Joshua Becker, author of The Minimalist Home
20. “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”– Robert Swan, explorer
Even though Plastic-Free July is over I hope you will carry the beliefs of the month into your every day. Stores are full of plastic, but also full of choices. Choose the glass jar instead of the plastic container. Choose cardboard over plastic. And choose no package over any kind of packaging.
Please read our other articles published this Plastic-Free July here:
Plastic-free July is here to make the useless plastic go away.
Plastic detox: deplastify your life.
Plastic-free beach Toronto thanks to Dora Attard.
We highly recommend checking out this wonderful website My Plastic Free Life.com. This is an awesome website with so much interesting stuff to go through. She has unfortunately stopped posting, but still, she put so much work into introducing her plastic-free life, so go ahead and take a look.
Do you have your own favourite plastic quote to share?
Cover photo by FLY:D