Ian Somerhalder Quotes

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.

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.

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

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

Nothing is wasted.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

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

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

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

In Los Angeles, I drive a hybrid and live in a very simple home. Anything you do from carrying a canteen of water to starting a recycling program in your office makes a difference. Reusing what you already have has always been green - from clothes to boxes to glass jars from the supermarket.

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

When we unwrap presents, I tend to sit there with a bin liner trying to collect up the wrapping paper and thinking about which pieces I can reuse and which I will recycle.

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.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

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.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

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.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

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

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