Nikki Reed 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.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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

I'm a recycling obsessive.

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

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.

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

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

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

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

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

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