Norman R. Augustine Quotes

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

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.

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.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Nothing is wasted.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

Our whole economy has become a waste economy, in which things must be almost as quickly devoured and discarded as they have appeared in the world, if the process itself is not to come to a sudden catastrophic end..

Clothing isn't disposable.

We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

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