Dan Phillips Quotes

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

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.

Paper making was the first of the recycling industries.

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.

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

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

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.

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.

Nothing is wasted.

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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

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

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

I'm a leftover junkie.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.