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1. Rosemarie spune:

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   I can only hope as well as wish more of the general population would know the seriousness of this issue. The work that all involved in educating humans about this plight of plastic pollution is truly inspirational! I wish more people wuld just take a few small steps in their daily lives to decrease the impact of this BIG problem… I pick up plastic bottles and what plastic debris every day when I walk my dog… I see plastic everywhere I turn. The knowledge I have acquired from people such as urself has certainly made a tremendous impact on how I view single use plastics and bottled water dramastically!
2. Wrapping up 5IMDC, Honolulu, Hawaii | Plastic Pollution Coalition spune:

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   [...] brought up the issue of plastic in Daniella’s plenary session talk. She clearly outlined our concern about hiding the urgency of the issue behind words that [...]
3. Wallace J. Nichols spune:

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   You NAILED it, D!
4. Concerned Scientist spune:

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   ” I am daring us all – lets say the name. PLASTIC POLLUTION.”
   I am not sure you were at the same conference as the rest of us.

   Just to be very correct most people at 5IMDC, were trying to define real terminology. This is because when making legislation the terminology has to be very exact.

   Say we said we wanted to ban plastic

   This bans a lot more than what people normally think about for synthetic polymers, I do emphasize synthetic here since if we just say polymers it could include a lot of naturally occurring polymers.

   If we wrote into legislation to ban all plastic, this would ban bio-plastic, bio-degradable plastic, rubber, medical devices like breathing tubes, or if we take the greek derivative (plastikos) which means capable of being shaped or molded, or (plastos) meaning molded than that would be all clay objects or even metal

   I don’t mean to harp on this issue but this topic of marine pollution and our oceans are way to important to be frivolous with terminology. We must be precise in both science and policy so we can make meaningful decisions. I don’t mean for us simper into inaction, but a little more professionalism and a little less extremism is needed on this very important topic. Our future generations depend on us taking the right steps in an appropriate way!
5. Krasimira Buyuklieva-Darzeva spune:

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   Bravo Daniela!!
6. Recycled Plastic spune:

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   wow, powerful article! Loved how you started with the Harry Potter intro. Don’t forget that plastic is also a material derived from petroleum and natural gas. Both of which are limited resources. While it is important to worry about the end life of plastics, we need to also worry about the depletion of our valuable natural resources!