Quotes About Waste

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

Health care in the United States is responsible for a tremendous amount of waste and a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. For every hospital bed, the American health care system produces about 30 pounds of waste every day; over all, it accounts for about 10 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions.

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

There was a history of entrepreneurialism, but it was getting them nowhere. In fact, it was making things worse. They needed to leverage their scale globally, but as long as country managers were calling the shots and demanding scarce technical resources from the center to fix trivial local problems, the fundamental need for a new technology platform could never be addressed. To hell with entrepreneurialism; it was just an excuse for selfishness and waste.

Probably to the filthy rich, toilets are disposable. Mario and Luigi are always standing by to switch a new one in after each use.

In complex organisms the head, or anterior pole of the body, is the part that processes information, the posterior pole the part that engages in sexual reproduction and excretion of waste. From that orientation plants live with their heads in the Earth, their asses in the air. We love the smell, usually, of their reproductive organs and pick them to give to our beloveds (a highly suggestive though unconscious act). We don't, most of us, really know plants at all.

la apatía y la cobardía de una generación pueden desperdiciar y borrar lo que generaciones anteriores consiguieron con sangre, sudor y lágrimas.

We will journey in hope, and trust the Swift Sure Hand to guide us.' 'A little guidance would not go amiss right now,' I confessed, gazing out at the trackless waste of hills and empty sky. 'Llew,' he said, 'we have ever been led.

Unless you clear those once stubborn self-limiting beliefs and fears you will find the NAPS you have recorded is simply a waste of your time in doing so.

What stood in one corner of the cell was disgusting: two empty disinfectant canisters and one well used and well stained piss pot, the sort of chamber pot that people would train their babies to be potty trained on before they would learn to use the toilet.

Too often you focus on the cons before you even consider a pro. You can't even think about the benefits of taking on your dream because you're too busy focusing on the "what if," the "what could be," and the "why it won't work for me" excuses. You're willing to waste years of your life walking away from your dreams instead of running toward your destiny.

According to Green Cross Switzerland, 9 trillion gallons of water are used annually in textile production around the world. Most of it is dumped untreated.3

I have read 10,000 word articles that were a complete waste of time.  And I've read 500 word articles that have changed my life.

Sometimes, a certain amount of waste is just a necessary part of maximizing one's pleasure.

A Smart City cannot be imagined without proper recycling.

pile, I started to see the golden kernels everywhere, ground into the mud by tires and boots, floating in the puddles of rainwater, pancaked on the steel rails. Most of this grain is destined for factory farms and processing plants, so no one worries much about keeping it particularly clean. Even so, it was hard not to register something deeply amiss in the sight of so much food lying around on the wet ground.