Nate Berkus Quotes

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Nothing is wasted.

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

I was brought up to reuse things.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

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

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

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 don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.