Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

I compost at home. I'm always taking old banana peels, eggshells, coffee beans, or whatever it is, and putting them in a compost bin and then using it in my backyard.

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

Tomorrow composts today.

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

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

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

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

I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

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

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

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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse the trash and clippings I produce for mulch. I reuse the rain that falls on my roof, and I reuse the sun that shines on my house for energy. I guess you could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.