Peter Senge Quotes

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.

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

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.

Nothing is wasted.

I threw my TV out years ago.

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

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

I come from garbage.

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.

I'm a leftover junkie.

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.

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.

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.