“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.”

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.”

—John Doerr, chairman of venture

capital firm Kleiner Perkins

“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. (son of Jacque Cousteau), French diver and environmentalist.

We are all guinea pigs. All humans, plants and animals on this planet are part of a giant experiment. Most countries to not regulate plastics at all. We just keep producing more and more plastics, most of which winds up in...

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