Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

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.

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.

There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Superdevelopment leads to a throwaway society and to enormous waste. Excessive access to all kinds of things,—sometimes called consumerism—enslaves people and does not make them happy.

Our entire economy is based on waste. We produce stuff we don’t need… How far is this going to go? I have a 5 word answer for you: Zero waste equals zero commerce.

Our whole economy has become a waste economy, in which things must be almost as quickly devoured and discarded as they have appeared in the world, if the process itself is not to come to a sudden catastrophic end..

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

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

Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.