Shia LaBeouf Quotes

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.

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.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

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

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.

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

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

I was brought up to reuse things.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

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.

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

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.

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

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

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.

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.