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Quotes About Reuse

said, sounding a little nervous. "Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
NASA identifies reuse candidates at the ends of their projects. They then perform the work needed to make the classes reusable as a special project at the end of the main project or as the first step in a new project. This approach helps prevent gold-plating—creation of functionality that isn't required and that unnecessarily adds complexity.
~ Steve McConnell
Notably, the core of NASA's approach to creating reusable classes does not involve designing for reuse. NASA identifies reuse candidates at the ends of their projects. They then perform the work needed to make the classes reusable as a special project at the end of the main project or as the first step in a new project. This approach helps prevent gold-plating—creation of functionality that isn't required and that unnecessarily adds complexity.
~ Steve McConnell
whether cities or bodies—find productive uses for the waste they create.
~ Steven Johnson
One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.
~ Bill Nye
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.
~ Jade Jagger
You can extend the life of your most popular blog posts by turning them into SlideShare presentations. Peg
~ Guy Kawasaki
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.
~ Bob Frankston
About 80 percent of U.S. products are used once and then discarded.13
~ Heather Rogers
Please use biodegradable plastic, please don't use disposable water, carry your own water, try to walk or use cycle, or carpool, or else use public transport.
~ Rupali Ganguly
He had come from a country where mathematics and mechanics were natural traits. Cars were never destroyed. Parts of them were carried across a village and readapted into a sewing machine or water pump. The backseat of a Ford was reupholstered and became a sofa. Most people in his village were more likely to carry a spanner or screwdriver than a pencil. A car's irrelevant parts thus entered a grandfather clock or irrigation pulley or the spinning mechanism of an office chair.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Green Capitalism", even if products are produced using the utmost environmental care and designed for easy reuse, offers not way out of a system that must expand exponentially and thus, continue to ratchet up its use of natural resources, its chemical pollution, its contaminated sewage sludge, its garbage, and its many other toxic substances. Some of these "fixes" will probably slow down the rate of environmental destruction, but the magnitude of the needed changes dwarfs these approaches.
~ Fred Magdoff
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.
~ Carlo Ratti
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables....
~ Carolyn Brown
I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
~ Dan Phillips
Second-hand gold is as good as new.
~ KEN ALSTAD
Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.
~ Jamshyd Godrej
I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
~ Jenny Lewis
It's frustrating to not be able to wear the same dress twice, so I don't have a go-to dress like all girls do. Renting is definitely going to be my new fashion obsession.
~ Nikki Reed
This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.
~ Suzan Colon
I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.
~ Kali Uchis