Ruth Ann Minner Quotes

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

It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.

I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

We should be concerned about our immediate environment. Taking care of the leaking tap, not wasting water while washing hands, and other such gestures will go a long way in helping the environment.

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.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

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.

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.

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

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

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

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

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

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

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

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.

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.