Allen Dulles Quotes

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

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

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.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

We can no longer throw our waste away because there is no away.

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.

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

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

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.

I come from garbage.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

I'm a trash can. I eat whatever makes me happy.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

I was brought up to reuse things.

I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

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

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

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.

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.