Ed Rendell Quotes

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.

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.

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

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

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

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

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.

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

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.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

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

We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.

There is no 'recycle too much.' That's an oxymoron.

Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

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

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

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

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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

There are programs for the scrapping of appliances, but no one thinks about what's involved in the waste management of brassieres.