Quotes About Recycling

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

I just think we need to find a way, because we don't dispose of them very well; they have very bad chemicals in them. If we could just find a way, maybe start at a small step with eliminating batteries perhaps in small electronic devices, and then possibly in the future go bigger, that would be great.

For the states that take the lead on reform - asset recycling, deregulation, service innovation - the Federal Government could step back, and allow greater flexibility in how we deliver our responsibilities.

Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody

Tal vez parezca una locura, pero estamos trabajando en ello. […] Nos gustaría ser capaces un día de fabricar nuevos productos única y exclusivamente a partir de materiales reciclados, incluyendo entre ellos los viejos productos de los clientes. Se trata de un experimento de tecnología del reciclaje que nos está enseñando muchas cosas, y confiamos en que este tipo de pensamiento inspire a los demás integrantes de nuestro sector470

Shelly pulled out another crate. "People back then were the original recyclers, weren't they? Wooden crates, reusable glass soda bottles. That was kind of cool. Why did we ever stop? Now we have plastic bottles littering the ocean.

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

Empty landfills are the pits

God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

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

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

I hate recycling. I don't think it exists. I think they've made it up to give people jobs. They deliver these stupid little Tupperware boxes and tell me, 'You're not using your recycling box!' Who are they? They're not the police.

The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.

The plastic straw bans, that's not what's creating the problem in the oceans. That's a drop in the bucket, as far as the amount of plastic.

Yes, it's important to get all plastic out of the waste stream.

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums.

My mother was not very good about keeping clothes; if they were outdated, she'd give them to an aunt or cousins or museums.

My ideas are recycled.