"Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage."

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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

— Sylvia Earle