Kris Carr 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.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

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.

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'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

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

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

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.

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.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

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

I'm a recycling obsessive.

I work with things left over from other things.

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

I was brought up to reuse things.

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

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

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.

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

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.