Quotes About Disposable

We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.

Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

Boys are like toilet paper. You rip them off, use them to wipe your ass, and then flush them down the toilet.

I remember when the Bic pen was controversial. They came from France. They were cheap, and when one was out of ink, you threw it away; you didn't dip it into more ink.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

People need to know about the Biossance makeup remover cloths. They're biodegradable, so I don't feel bad throwing them out.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

When the 1929 crash wiped out disposable income, there were not enough consumers to fuel a recovery.

We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.

He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasn't important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

Lucky hard-ons are bio-degradable, I thought, because I was throwing a lot them away.

Himmler's Ahnenerbe, an organization dedicated to providing both an intellectual framework for Nazism and Indiana Jones with an endless supply of disposable bad guys.

in these shitty plastic days ...

Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

shows that in 1929 Americans spent more than 60 percent of their disposable income on necessities; by 2016 that had fallen to a third.

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.

Coffee in styrofoam is against my religion.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.