RECYCLING QUOTES
quotations about recycling
While recycling is great in a lot of ways, the ultimate goal is to get people to prevent waste in the first place.
MCKENZIE JONES
"Recycling made easier with new city app", Arizona Daily Sun, February 11, 2016
Recycling turns things into other things. Which is like MAGIC.
ANONYMOUS
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables
Recycle the present, save the future.
ANONYMOUS
Eat, Sleep, Recycle.
ANONYMOUS
Don't be trashy. Recycle.
ANONYMOUS
Recycling is more than just a response to the environmental crisis and has assumed a symbolic role in beginning to change the nature of western societies and the culture of consumerism. Indeed many environmentalists assume that there will be an inevitable shift from our "throwaway" society to a post-industrial "recycling" society of the future.
MATTHEW GANDY
Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste
Recycle today for a better tomorrow.
ANONYMOUS
Never refuse to reuse.
ANONYMOUS
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!
WENDY COPE
"A Green Song", Serious Concerns
Recycling is often portrayed within environmentalist literature as integral to the conception of an alternative society founded on small-scale community based industries and commune type human settlements. The aims is to create self-sufficient sustainable urban communities based around local production for local consumption from local resources.
MATTHEW GANDY
Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste
I would rather see us recycle fewer things well, than more things poorly.
DAVID ALLAWAY
"Can circular thinking set us free from the 'recycling religion'?", Green Biz, February 5, 2016
There is no such thing as "away". When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.
ANNIE LEONARD
attributed, The Story of STUFF Project
A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
JOHN SAWHILL
attributed, The Greatest Guide to Green Living
Recycling is not as simple a subject as many people might believe, and when it is taken as only one element of an integrated approach to waste management, this complexity is greatly increased in terms of the issues involved, the techniques to be selected and the financial and environmental evaluation which is necessary to ensure that real benefits are achieved. We are undoubtedly making progress, but the recycling of household waste in this country is in its infancy. If recycling is to develop, those responsible for waste management, both national and local government and private companies in the waste management industry, must take recycling seriously as a waste treatment option.
RICHARD WAITE
Household Waste Recycling
When you refuse to reuse it's our Earth you abuse.
ANONYMOUS
Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
DENIS HAYES
attributed, E Is for Environment: Stories to Help Children Care for Their World--at Home
Recycle. The possibilities are endless.
ANONYMOUS
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
ED BEGLEY, JR.
attributed, Living an Eco-Friendly Life
The recycling movement is floundering, and its survival depends on continual subsidies, sermons and policing. How can you build a sustainable city with a strategy that can't even sustain itself?
JOHN TIERNEY
"Can circular thinking set us free from the 'recycling religion'?", Green Biz, February 5, 2016