Marne Levine Quotes

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.

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.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

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

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

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.

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

People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.

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

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.