Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

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

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.

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

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

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 work with things left over from other things.

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

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

I was brought up to reuse things.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing is wasted.

Not everything needs to be recycled.

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.

Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.

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

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

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

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

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

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.

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