Quotes About Recycling

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Garbage has become one of the most accurate measures of prosperity in twenty-first century America and the world.

No matter where you are, there's no getting over it, no getting away from it," he has said. "It's a plastic ocean now … We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.

Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

The most complex ecosystems on Earth are the tropical coral reef and the tropical rainforest. Both are characterized by large numbers of species, a rapid turnover of matter and energy, and extensive recycling of all essential materials. In both of these ecosystems, the principles of ecology are exhibited clearly and beautifully.

Vishal was well ahead of his time. Only the other day I read in one of our papers that elephant dung could be converted into good quality paper. Perhaps they'll use it to make bank notes. Reserve Bank, please note.   ?

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

What was this place?" Tally asked. "I think they made newspapers here," David said. "Like books, but you threw them away and got a new one every day." "You're kidding." "Not at all. And you thought we wasted trees in the Smoke!

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought us at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Value Village, and garage sales. My late sister studied my mother's denim quilt and said, 'That's a lot of pants. There's been a lot of ass in those pants. This is a blanket of asses.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.

I don't really shop unless it's thrift.

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.

Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps of RC Cola. You'd turn in 12 of them, and you'd get a ticket to see a movie. That's how I started going to the movies. Running around the neighborhood looking for bottle caps. We were like little scavengers.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Naturally, the system would have to be rigidly closed, recycling all food, air, and other expendables. But, of course, that's just how the Earth operates—on a slightly larger scale.

Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

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.

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.