Jeremy Scott Quotes

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

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

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

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

I'm a leftover junkie.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

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.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as waste. It is just a question of whether we know how to use something or not.

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

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.

Everything has been something before.

I was brought up to reuse things.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

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

Nothing is wasted.

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

One man’s trash is another man’s dissertation.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

I work with things left over from other things.