Recycling Quotes

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  Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Business, Ignorant, Littering

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• 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.

  Neil LaBute

  Names, Giving, Easier

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• Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.

  Lisa Germano

  World, Conscious, Save The World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

  Nikki Reed

  Important, Materials, Can Do

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• Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Use, Reuse

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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

  Issey Miyake

  Ideas, Purpose, Use

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• Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts - it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see... When you assume this as a way of being, your choices become easier. Using a reusable water bottle, recycling and making conscious daily consumer choices are just a few of the ways our incredible cast is green.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Water Bottles, Choices, Voting

  "Ian Somerhalder works for environmental change through his foundation". Interview with Laura Moss, www.mnn.com. March 15, 2012.

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• If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

  Bill Nye

  Kids, Want, Importance

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Buying, Environment, Recycled

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.ecomall.com.

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• We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hands, Benefits, Use

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• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Beer

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• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

  Barry Commoner

  Differences, People, Feel Good

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• I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

  Mike Quigley

  Feels

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• 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.

  Barbara Amiel

  Vortex, Speech, Ashamed

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• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

  Marlene Dumas

  Time, Art, Light

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• Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fun, Political, Speech

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Nuclear, Barcelona

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• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Rick Wright

  Running, Money, People

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.

  William Rathje

  Faces, Waste, Management

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• One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

  Dave Barry

  Kissing, Cells, People

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• The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sex, Opening Up, Focus

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