Gene Green Quotes

There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

If they [the Federal government] can't handle the [toxic] waste, they shouldn't generate it.

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

I just think we need to find a way, because we don't dispose of them very well; they have very bad chemicals in them. If we could just find a way, maybe start at a small step with eliminating batteries perhaps in small electronic devices, and then possibly in the future go bigger, that would be great.

As the pace of technology increases, the amount of toxic electronic waste is piling up at home and abroad.

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.

Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

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.

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

Many Americans are unaware that discarded electronics often contain lead, mercury, and other toxins and end up being salvaged under inhumane conditions in the developing world.

While many of us use beauty products every single day, we fail to recognize how much waste this can actually create if the empty bottles aren't recycled.

With India going digital, we have a massive and dangerous e-waste problem.

The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.

This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.