Lucy Walker Quotes

Sooner or later, all magazines end up in the toilet.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

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

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

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

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.

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.

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 come from garbage.

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.

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

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?

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

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