RECYCLING QUOTES II
quotations about recycling
I went from "out of sight, out of mind." If I didn't want it in my house, I threw it away. I didn't think about how my personal actions impacted the big picture of the environment. With the things I learned, I completely changed my life. Now if there's no recycling option for something I want to buy, I don't want it. It changes the way I shop. We don't have a lot of trash in our home, even though we have three kids.
COLLEEN SINCLAIR
"Recycling Coordinator Interview", iSeek Green
The majority of the residential group, if questioned, will confirm that they are anxious to support recycling initiatives, that they do so because they are concerned for the environment, and that they do themselves actively separate their waste for recycling. If what they avow is true, then it is somewhat surprising that source-separation schemes do not enjoy a much higher success rate. The reason appears to be that privately many householders find source separation inconvenient, occasionally untidy, and properly the responsibility of the municipality rather than themselves.
A. G. MANSER
Practical Handbook of Processing and Recycling Municipal Waste
It's kind of impossible to keep every shred of paper out of a pile of broken glass. But that's the essence of the single stream system. It's not about getting every last item. It's about percentages. It's a social contract, where we tolerate a certain amount of waste to get some added convenience so that more people will recycle. And like it or not, it's the system that's here to stay.
ALLEGHENY FRONT
ALLEGHENY FRONT, Innovation Trail, February 4, 2016
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to be dispersed because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
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
attributed, The Official Mom Book
Many communities are faced with difficult choices when it comes to expanding or even maintaining current recycling efforts. How will they pay for the service while state and federal financial support disappears? The answer often comes down to a choice between other critical services like police and fire protection or even street cleaning.
MARC J. ROGOFF
Approaches to Implementing Solid Waste Recycling Facilities
Recyclers do it over and over again.
ANONYMOUS
It started as a selfish act and has turned into a way of life. I can't stand to watch someone throw anything away that belongs in my green bin.
JEN HATMAKER
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
When people realize responsible recycling is not only the right thing to do for the environment and for future humankind, but that it also makes money for the town, they know it's just better for all of us.
MICHAEL SERRA
"Pompton Lakesl bullish on recycling", North Jersey, February 4, 2016
Here in the United States, every aspect of recycling continues to evolve. Markets, technology, equipment and economics are constantly changing as costs continue to escalate. But recycling is still a viable way to manage our waste stream. We just have to understand that municipalities, business owners, homeowners and anyone else who wants to recycle is going to be paying much more for the service in the future.
WILL FLOWER
"What Operation Green Fence has Meant for Recycling", Waste 360, February 11, 2016
If you want change you start local, then you go big. You need the support of local government officials to get started and then the next step is the county commissioners. State and national leaders also help a lot if they are pushing for recycling and believe in it. Their influence lays the groundwork for cities to start new programs and initiatives.
COLLEEN SINCLAIR
"Recycling Coordinator Interview", iSeek Green
Even if through simple living and rigorous recycling you stopped your own average Americans annual one ton of garbage production, your per capita share of the industrial waste produced in the US is still almost twenty-six tons. That's thirty-seven times as much waste as you were able to save by eliminating a full 100 percent of your personal waste. Industrialism itself is what has to stop.
DERRICK JENSEN
Deep Green Resistance
Make everyday EARTH day.
ANONYMOUS
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
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 1978
Recycling is a business. We're all in business. It's not a charity. Recycling is not broken, but there are some business models that are. So I think what we're seeing now is there's a reevaluation of supply chain, how (the waste management sector) views and how they invest in recycling.
STEPHANIE BAKER
"Plastics Recycling 2016: 'Recycling is a business ... It's not a charity'", Waste Dive, February 3, 2016
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.
JULIAN BARNES
Pulse
When science advances, cities and business enterprises grow in tandem. As human population in cities increases, the amount of waste also increases exponentially. Therefore, we should discover scientific means for properly handling this waste. If not, our natural environment will decay and diseases will spread. We must strive as much as possible to recycle and reuse 'waste.' Mother Nature has her own miraculous ways of recycling and reusing waste, thus preserving life. Let it be our aim to create a world with zero waste.
AMMA
108 Quotes On Nature
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
PETER F. HAMILTON
The Naked God
The case for recycling is strong. The bottom line is clear. Recycling requires a trivial amount of our time. Recycling saves money and reduces pollution. Recycling creates more jobs than landfilling or incineration. And a largely ignored but very important consideration, recycling reduces our need to dump our garbage in someone else's backyard.
DAVID MORRIS
attributed, Pollution: Opposing Viewpoints
It doesn't take long to realize you've made the wrong decision. You bump along with your eco-fueled ego in your eco-fueled vehicle and reuse every piece of plastic and glass you encounter, but it isn't enough.
A. J. LAUER
Armageddon: Pick Your Plot