Quotes About Waste

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

You should cut down on your plastic consumption. Go get a reusable water bottle.

I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one nation's problem.

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive pollutant: durability and resistance to degradation.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

We've become a plastic society.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.