Stephen Hough Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.

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

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

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

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

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.

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.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Nothing is wasted.

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.