Jaime Lerner Quotes

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.

I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

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.

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

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

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.

I come from garbage.

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

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.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

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

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

We're not going to allow Virginia to become a trash depository for New York or anyplace else.

The Clintons are walking around on poo. But it’s very clean poo.

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

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

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.

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

Keeping the country clean - that's very important.