Paulina Porizkova Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

The cheap and easy days of waste disposal are over.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

In theory, recycling poop is the perfect solution to the one truly unavoidable byproduct of human civilization.

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.

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

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

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

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

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!

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

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