Antoni Porowski Quotes

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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

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

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.

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

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I was brought up to reuse things.

It's easier to get rid of things when you're giving them to someone who can use them, but don't let this kind intention become a source of clutter itself. I have a friend who has multiple piles all over her house, each lovingly destined for a particular recipient.

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.

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.

Nothing is wasted.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

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

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

I threw my TV out years ago.

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.