Zhang Yin Quotes

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

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

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.

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

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

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

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

The United States has consumed in the last 50 years more natural resources than the rest of the entire human race for all of history.

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

Paper making was the first of the recycling industries.

I have always seen pollution as theft.

We've all got to come together, and we've got to protect what's left of our ancient forests on this planet.

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.

All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

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

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

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.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.