Quotes About Recycling

Creating a landfill in your home does not mean that you're saving the environment. You just moved the garbage.

About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.

If there's one vital, but underappreciated, subject in the conversation about climate change, it's waste: how to define it, how to create less of it, how to deal with it without adding more pollution to the planet or the atmosphere.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.

So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives

There is comfort in such accumulations, layers of lives, of years. Gardening tools, wheelbarrow, arousal cans, old bicycles, recycling bins, battered trash cans, cardboard boxes stacked in a corner, cracked clay pots, exiled kitchenware & furniture, antique television, dog food bowls. You could do an inventory of a household by all that has been worn out or excluded, exiled from it. You could do an inventory of a life.

A Green Song (to sing at the bottle-bank) One green bottle, Drop it in the bank. Ten green bottles, What a lot we drank. Heaps of bottles And yesterday's a blank. But we'll save the planet, Tinkle, tinkle, clank! We've got bottles - Nice, percussive trash. Bags of bottles Cleaned us out of cash. Empty bottles, We love to hear them smash And we'll save the planet, Tinkle, tinkle, crash!

Instead of feeling sexy and tingly, it felt useless, like recycling plastics or registering to vote.

Plastic is still plastic. The material still remains a polymer. Polyethylene is not biodegraded in any

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.

Is recycling to do with global warming? - Need you ask? - Well, I only ask because we've been recycling for twenty years or so, and no one was talking about global warming back then.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

valuable technical nutrients—cars, televisions, carpeting, computers, and refrigerators, for

The Old Testament is a classic example of the religious recycling which has spawned all the religions. So when you are looking for the original meaning of Genesis and the story of Adam you have to go back to the Sumerian accounts to see how the story has been doctored. Genesis says that 'God' (the gods) created the first man, Adam, out of 'dust from the ground' and then used a rib of Adam to create Eve, the first woman.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.