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

“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