Quotes About Recycling

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

Even when we think or talk about recycling, lots of recyclable stuff ends up getting incinerated or in landfills and leaving many municipalities, diversion rates - they leave much to be recycled. And where is this waste handled? Usually in poor communities.

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.

I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.

I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost.

After I eat, I put food in a food waste bag.

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that on the surface creates growth and profit, ends up with waste, junk, and CO2. So how do you make it economic to bring new players into the ball game?

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.

Producing clean energy from non-recyclable waste is an important part of my future vision for family company Visy Australia.

I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

Being green means preventing waste.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

While many of us use beauty products every single day, we fail to recognize how much waste this can actually create if the empty bottles aren't recycled.