Quotes About Reuse

I quite like the element of charity shops not being sorted out.

Today, about 85 percent of Israel's wastewater—more than 100 million gallons a year—is used for irrigation, according to Seth M. Siegel, the author of Let There Be Water (2015), a study of Israeli water use that I am following here.

Don't lose them," Mrs. Fang said. "They're expensive as hell." The fangs had been purchased from a cut-rate dentist open to interesting trades in exchange for services rendered. They had given him an antique quilt from the Civil War, which had been in Mr. Fang's family for years, and had received, after their molding and fitting, four sets of fangs, snap-fit dentures that would go over their actual teeth and could be reused for years.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

When it's my turn, don't do this. Recycle the parts, burn the rest.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

È stupefacente come quelle bestie riutilizzassero ogni cosa - cuoio, carta, stoffa, tutto ciò che era servito agli esseri umani serviva, tornava utile anche alle bestie. Solo la cosa più preziosa al mondo - la vita - veniva calpestata.

A Core Competency has three attributes, according to Prahalad and Hamel: 1. It is not easy for competitors to imitate. 2. It can be reused widely for many products and markets. 3. It must contribute to the benefits the end customer experiences and the value of the product or service to customers.

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse.

Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!

Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind.

The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

The soldiers called the bullets Lazarus pills: when possible, they could be picked up and used again.

from Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army: Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will wear the socks to keep their feet warm, blow their noses in your handkerchiefs, pull up the shorts, tuck in the size large shirts (too small for our boys, too big for our daughter), and bits of you will be out there, engaging in a life you no longer have.

Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe.

The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.

I love going to second-hand stores.

I like consignment stores.

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again.

They don't buy the product: They recycle the information. They use it to try to impress the next person they meet.

Multichannel reuse: can you carry the information provided by customers on one channel across to our other channels (especially from online into brick-and-mortar)?

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.